Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Erythranthe geyeri [Mimulus geyeri] [Mimulus glabratus] [Erythranthe glabrata] [Mimulus jamesii]
- Family
- Phrymaceae
- CommonName
- roundleaf monkeyflower
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1934
- LatestDate
- 2023
- Ecosystem
- basin, shrubland, foothill, montane
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, San Juan
- Passes
- Stony
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca, Great Sand Dunes, Russell Lakes
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- Formerly under the name Mimulus glabratus, Erythranthe geyeri or roundleaf monkeyflower has been collected less often than Erythranthe guttatus in the Watershed. But there are a substantial number of records, usually by springs, streams, and lakes in the Upper Basin (e.g., Baca NWR; Russel Lakes SWA; Great Sand Dunes NM) and from slightly higher elevations (e.g., Valley View Hot Springs; Cat Creek SW of Monte Vista; Humphrey's Ranch near Wagon Wheel Gap). A recent record is iNaturalist obseration #192686285, 2023, although this plant is buried in grass and not unambiguously E. geyeri). The flower has a wide distribution in the USA, including the desert Southwest, the Rockies, the Great Plains, and the Great Lakes. It follows the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico to a little past the Big Bend region of Texas. Note that the former genus Mimulus has been revised to assign all Watershed flowers previously treated as Mimulus to the genus Erythranthe (Barker et al. 2012).
- Annotation