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Mojave Monkeyflower

Diplacus mohavensis

Mojave Monkeyflower
Photo: Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0

Diplacus mohavensis is a small, hairy annual monkeyflower from the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California. It grows from seed after winter and spring rains, so its numbers rise and fall with yearly rainfall.

Family
Phrymaceae (Phrym family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly; it relies on winter and spring rain and dislikes soggy soil.
Soil
Sandy or gravelly, free-draining soil.
How easy
Hard
Native range
California (San Bernardino Co.)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Diplacus mohavensis is a species of monkeyflower known by the common name Mojave monkeyflower.

Where it grows

It is endemic to San Bernardino County, California, where it is known only from the Mojave Desert. It has been found in several locations in and around Barstow, often in gravelly, sandy habitat such as arroyos from 600 to 1000 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 mohavensis 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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