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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Mimulus alatus
FAMILY
Phrymaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Winged Monkey-flower at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mimulus alatus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-11-003:
Mimulus alatus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
COMMON NAME:
Winged Monkey-flower, Sharpwing Monkey-flower
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_mial2_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_mial2_004_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_mimulus_alatus
August
Flowers solitary in leaf axils on stalks shorter than the calyx, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
COMPARE
Monkey-flowers
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_mimulus_alatus_5
August
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Rusty Wilson fkw_mimulusalatus_2
Month Unknown Greenwood County SC
Ninety Six National Historic Site
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Rusty Wilson fkw_mimulusalatus_3
Month Unknown Greenwood County SC
Ninety Six National Historic Site
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Rusty Wilson fkw_mimulusalatus_4
Month Unknown Greenwood County SC
Ninety Six National Historic Site
Leaves similar to M. ringens but to 5 (vs 3) cm wide and distinctly petiolate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Rusty Wilson fkw_mimulusalatus_4b
Month Unknown Greenwood County SC
Ninety Six National Historic Site
The stem is narrowly winged, & flowers are exceeded by the petiolate leaves, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Mimulus alatus
FAMILY
Phrymaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mimulus alatus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-11-003:
Mimulus alatus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
2390
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain, rare in SC Mountains)
Look for it in marshes, bottomlands, ditches, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Wet
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Lavender/Nearly white
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla
4 stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
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 p148
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p334
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p409
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p088
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p223
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p243
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p287
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p155
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p264