Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Winged Monkey-flower at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
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
COMMON NAME:
Winged Monkey-flower, Sharpwing Monkey-flower
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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
Rusty Wilson fkw_mimulusalatus_2
Month Unknown Greenwood County SC
Ninety Six National Historic Site
Rusty Wilson fkw_mimulusalatus_3
Month Unknown Greenwood County SC
Ninety Six National Historic Site
Rusty Wilson fkw_mimulusalatus_4
Month Unknown Greenwood County SC
Ninety Six National Historic Site
Leaves similar to M. ringens but distinctly petiolate and to 5cm wide (vs. 3), per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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.