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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Mimulus ringens var. ringens
FAMILY
Phrymaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
M. ringens has flowers on long stalks but the leaves are sessile. (The very similar M. alatus has sessile flowers but leaves that are not sessile.) Also, M. ringens has essentially no wings along the 4-sided stem. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mimulus ringens var. ringens
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-11-002:
Mimulus ringens FAMILY Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Mimulus ringens
COMMON NAME:
Allegheny Monkeyflower, Square-stemmed Monkeyflower
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JK Marlow jkm100626_086
June Avery County NC
The Roan Highlands
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JK Marlow jkm240703_0153
July Greenville County SC
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Keith Bradley kab_mimulus_1850
July Blount County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Keith Bradley kab_mimulus_1866
July Blount County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Ron Lance rwl_20220726_114546
July Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
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Ron Lance rwl_20220726_114546b
July Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
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Gill Newberry gn08_mimulus_fl
August
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JK Marlow jkm060805_097
August Haywood County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The throat has a raised palate shaded with yellow, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm060813_030
August Haywood County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Leaves stalkless, and the flower stalk is longer than the calyx, per Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977).
COMPARE
Monkey-flowers
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JK Marlow jkm060813_039
August Haywood County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Leaves sessile, often clasping the stem, with obscurely crenate margins, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm111026_075
October Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
The capsule is enclosed by the persistent calyx, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Mimulus ringens var. ringens
FAMILY
Phrymaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mimulus ringens var. ringens
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-11-002:
Mimulus ringens
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Mimulus ringens
935
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: marshes, bogs, wet meadows, bottomlands, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (uncommon in GA Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Lavender/Nearly white
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla
4 stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
Bisexual
Flowers solitary in leaf axils
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p149
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p478
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p100
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p410
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p088
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p223
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p330
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p243
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p288
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p155
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