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Muskflower - Mimulus moschatus
Native Species
Global Rank:
G5
State Rank:
S3S4
(see State Rank Reason below)
C-value:
6
Agency Status
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State Rank Reason (see State Rank above)
Many known sites from across western Montana.
General Description
Rhizomatous perennial. Stems prostrate and ascending, rooting at the nodes, often branched at the base, 3–40 cm. Herbage viscid-villous. Leaves petiolate, blades ovate, serrate, 1–6 cm long. Flowers: calyx 7–11 mm long, teeth acute, subequal; pedicel 1 to 2 times as long as calyx; corolla 12–24 mm long, light to dark yellow, bilabiate, palate bearded, purple-lined. Capsule 3–7 mm long. Wet forest openings, muddy soil of meadows or along streams, ponds; valleys, montane (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Species Range
Montana Range
Range Descriptions
Native
Range Comments
BC, MT south to CA, UT and CO (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 56
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Recency
(Observations spanning multiple months or years are excluded from time charts)
Habitat
Wet forest openings, muddy soil of meadows or along streams, ponds; valleys, montane (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Ecology
POLLINATORS The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap:
Bombus vagans,
Bombus bifarius,
Bombus centralis,
Bombus flavifrons, and
Bombus pensylvanicus (Thorp et al. 1983, Colla and Dumesh 2010).
Stewardship Responsibility
References
- Literature Cited AboveLegend:
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Colla, S.R. and S. Dumesh. 2010. The bumble bees of southern Ontario: notes on natural history and distribution. Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario 141:39-68.- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
- Thorp, R.W., D.S. Horning, and L.L. Dunning. 1983. Bumble bees and cuckoo bumble bees of California (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey 23:1-79.
- Additional ReferencesLegend: View Online Publication
Do you know of a citation we're missing?- Culver, D.R. 1994. Floristic analysis of the Centennial Region, Montana. M.Sc. Thesis. Montana State University, Bozeman. 199 pp.
- Jones, W. W. 1901. Preliminary flora of Gallatin County. M.S. Thesis. Bozeman, MT: Montana State College. 78 pp.
- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2022. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants, Second Edition. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 779 p.
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