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Diplacus thompsonii
Diplacus thompsonii is a small annual wildflower native to the eastern Sierra Nevada and nearby desert ranges of California, where it grows on sandy, granitic soils at high elevations. It is a wild plant rarely grown in gardens, so its care is based on its native dry, sandy, high-elevation habitat.
Diplacus thompsonii, commonly known as Thompson's monkeyflower, is a species of annual flowering plant in the family Phrymaceae. It is native to the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada and the White Mountains and Inyo Mountains of central eastern California. It grows on granitic soils and sands on sandy slopes, in dry sagebrush flats, and in open pinyon and Jeffrey pine woodland from 1,800 to 2,600 meters elevation.
The species was described by Guy L. Nesom in 2013.
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 thompsonii 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.
