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Slender Monkeyflower

Diplacus leptaleus

Slender Monkeyflower
Photo: tomhilton, CC BY 2.0
Family
Phrymaceae (Phrym family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
California to W. Nevada
Climate
temperate

About

Diplacus leptaleus is a species of monkeyflower known by the common names slender monkeyflower, Sierra monkeyflower, and least-flowered monkeyflower.

Where it grows

Diplacus leptaleus is endemic to the Sierra Nevada of California and far western Nevada, where it grows in granite soils and sand near rock outcrops and in disturbed areas from 2,000 to 3,400 meters elevation.

Other Diplacus plants

Narrowleaf Pansy Monkeyflower · San Diego bush monkeyflower · Diplacus × australis · Harlequin Monkeyflower · 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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Diplacus leptaleus 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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