- Mimulus jepsonii
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Mimulus jepsonii Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Asterids Order: Lamiales Family: Phrymaceae Genus: Mimulus Species: M. jepsonii Binomial name Mimulus jepsonii
A.L.GrantMimulus jepsonii is a species of monkeyflower known by the common name Jepson's monkeyflower. It is native to the mountains and woodlands of northern California and southern Oregon, where it often grows in the shade of pine trees.
Description
This is an annual herb producing a thin, erect stem up to about 10 centimeters long. The purple-green leaves are linear to oval in shape and up to 1.4 centimeters in length. The pinkish purple flower is around a centimeter long, its five-lobed mouth with broad yellow strips and purple spotting.
This plant is sometimes nearly identical to its relative, Mimulus nanus, and can be differentiated from it only by close examination of characteristics such as the arrangement of hairs inside the mouth of the flower.[1]
References
- ^ Meinke, R. J. (1992). Differentiating Mimulus jepsonii and M. nanus in south-central Oregon: A problem in applied systematics. Kalmiopsis 2:10-16.
External links
Categories:- Phrymaceae
- Flora of Oregon
- Flora of California
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada region (U.S.)
- Lamiales stubs
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