#mimulus

HAHA GHOST ANIMATIC (warning for flashing, blood, mild body horror, and bright colors)

it contains spoilers, but Ghost hasn’t even been introduced yet, so they won’t be that significant. This is what I’ve been working on between the first pages of chapter two

I really love this song and feel pretty good with how this turned out! Ghost reflects on his past . . .

Formerly Mimulus guttatus, the original binomial given to it in 1813 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. It's also had 32 synonyms over the years, but in 2012 it was moved to the genus Erythranthe by American botanist Guy L. Nesom. Erythranthe refers to the red flowers of some species in the genus, and guttatus to the spots in the throat of this one.

Native to streambanks and seeps in western North America, tolerating salt spray, toxic mine tailings, hydrothermal fields, and desert conditions, as long as the ground is damp. Very common in New Zealand near water bodies, as here on the bank of the Avon. An introduced species in Europe.

As well as being grown as an ornamental, the leaves are edible, both raw and cooked, and sometimes added to salads.

More from the gravel bars and mudflats, a type of riparian ecosystem of the Little Miami pt 2

Mimulus ringens, previous post had the other common species in this, these pictures show just how much larger the peduncle is comparative.

In a patch of Korean hops lies an introduced naturalized species known as Galinsoga quadriradiata or the shaggy soldier. (on broken bar)

Phyla lanceolata, lance leaf fog fruit , If your from Ohio we call it Frog Fruit; a native species perfect for bioswale planting and riparian restoration. Great stabilizer.

^bottom pic from MN wildflower blog. via Peter M. Dziuk

in the mudflat, Plantago rugelii (fairly sure based off of red base) or the floppy red based broad leaf plantain. If you find a plantain in a mudflat, it usually is stick like or narrow leaved with really unique flower structure that is more bristly looking on average, these tend to be our natives, Heartleaf is more of a gravel scour and flat wet wood species. Much like heart leaf, rugel's also has a broadleaf compared to the rest of the wet loving species. The base of this plant were barely red and the flower morphology was very bristle like is why I think the ID is correct, plus the niche affiliation; with this said, the P. major is also a generalist and can have red when stressed by summer heat on it's petioles so it would of been better to go off of the bulb like base instead of the intuition while kabrewing on the Little Miami. The other way to tell is that the ovules stick more erect.