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Wide Throat Yellow Monkey Flower

Diplacus brevipes

Also called Wide Throated Yellow Monkeyflower, Widethroat Yellow Monkeyflower

Wide Throat Yellow Monkey Flower
Photo: George Williams, CC BY 4.0

Widethroat yellow monkeyflower is a hairy annual wildflower from southern California and Baja California, grown from seed in chaparral. It thrives in sunny, open, well-drained ground, such as areas recently cleared by fire.

Family
Phrymaceae (Phrym family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water lightly while seedlings establish, then let it rely on winter and spring rain; it dies back as summer dries the ground.
Soil
Sandy or gravelly, well-drained soil; poor soil is fine.
Temperature
10–25 °C; tolerates mild frost but not hard freezes
How easy
Easy
Native range
California to Mexico (Baja California Norte)
Climate
subtropical

About

Diplacus brevipes is a species of monkeyflower known by the common name widethroat yellow monkeyflower. It was formerly known as Mimulus brevipes.

Where it grows

It is native to the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges and other mountains and foothills of southern California and Baja California. Diplacus brevipes grows in chaparral, especially open areas such as those recently cleared by wildfire.

Other Diplacus plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Diplacus brevipes by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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