Monardella purpurea

Monardella purpurea
Monardella purpurea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Monardella
Species: M. purpurea
Binomial name
Monardella purpurea
Howell

Monardella purpurea is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common names Siskiyou monardella and serpentine monardella.

It is native to the mountains of northern California and southern Oregon, including the Klamath Mountains, where it grows in chaparral and forest, often on serpentine soils.

Description

It is a perennial herb producing an erect, purple stem up to about 40 centimeters in maximum height. The oppositely arranged leaves are leathery, widely lance-shaped, and up to 3 centimeters long.

The inflorescence is a head of several flowers blooming in a cup of leathery purplish bracts. The pinkish purple flowers are just over a centimeter long, narrow and tubular in shape with pointed lobes and protruding stamens.

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