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Shield Bracted Monkeyflower

Erythranthe glaucescens

Shield Bracted Monkeyflower
Photo: (c) Chloe and Trevor Van Loon, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0
Family
Phrymaceae (Phrym family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
California (Butte Co., Tehama Co.)
Climate
temperate

About

Erythranthe glaucescens is a species of monkeyflower known by the common name shieldbract monkeyflower. It was formerly known as Mimulus glaucescens.

Where it grows

It is endemic to California, where it is known only from the western foothills of the southernmost Cascade Range and adjacent northernmost Sierra Nevada in Butte and Tehama counties. It grows in moist areas, such as seeps, above 600 meters elevation.

Other Erythranthe plants

Wingstem Monkeyflower · Rockjasmine Monkeyflower · Sand Loving Monkeyflower · Bearded Monkeyflower · Yellow And White Monkeyflower · Short Flowered Monkeyflower · Brewer's Monkeyflower · Erythranthe calciphila · Cardinal monkey flower · Carson Valley monkeyflower · Arizona Big Red Monkeyflower · Erythranthe cuprea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Erythranthe glaucescens 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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