Rockjasmine Monkeyflower
Mimulus androsaceus
Color: Pink to reddish purple
Common name: Rockjasmine Monkeyflower
Latin name: Mimulus androsaceus
Family: SCROPHULARIACEAE
Height: 0.2–3.5 inches
Description: Mimulus androsaceus is a petite annual, minutely hairy herb that produces a hair-thin, erect stem just a few centimeters tall. Its herbage is mostly red to greenish in color. The tubular base of the flower is surrounded by a slightly hairy red calyx of sepals. The flower corolla is pink to reddish-purple with darker spots in the throat, and just a few millimeters long.
Leaf: The paired tiny leaves sheath the stem at midpoint.
Range: w edge Mojave Desert, Inner North Coast Ranges, Tehachapi Mountain Area, Central Western California, Western Transverse Ranges, San Bernardino Mountains, e Peninsular Ranges (Santa Rosa Mtns, Riverside Co.)
Habitat: Uncommon. Moist runoff areas on gentle slopes
Elevation: < 2100 m.
Flowering time: Mar–Jun
Notes: Mimulus androsaceus is a dicot that is native to California and is endemic (limited) to California alone. This photo was taken on April 27, 2005 in the San Bernardino Mountains, San Bernardino County, California.
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