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Harlequin Monkeyflower

Diplacus bicolor

Harlequin Monkeyflower
Photo: (c) Mike Heine, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0
Family
Phrymaceae (Phrym family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
California (S. Sierra Nevada)
Climate
temperate

About

Diplacus bicolor is a species of monkeyflower known by the common name Harlequin monkeyflower. It is also known as Diplacus whitneyi.

Where it grows

Diplacus bicolor is endemic to the southern Sierra Nevada of California, such as below the Mount Whitney area. It grows in bare and disturbed habitat, such as exposed talus slopes and roadsides.

Other Diplacus plants

Narrowleaf Pansy Monkeyflower · San Diego bush monkeyflower · Diplacus × australis · Bigelow's Monkeyflower · Bolander's Monkeyflower · Santa Cruz Island Monkeyflower · Wide Throat Yellow Monkey Flower · Kaweah River bush monkeyflower · Cascade Monkeyflower · Cleveland's bush monkeyflower · North Idaho Monkeyflower · Compact Monkeyflower

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Diplacus bicolor by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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