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Erythranthe guttata
Also called Monkeyflower, Common Monkey Flower, Large Yellow Monkeyflower, Monkey Flower, Seep Monkeyflower, Spotted Monkeyflower, Yellow Monkeyflower
A bright yellow, bee-pollinated monkeyflower that grows as either an annual or a perennial, usually in moist soil or along streams and seeps. It thrives with consistently wet roots and some sun.
Erythranthe guttata, with the common names seep monkeyflower and common yellow monkeyflower, is a yellow bee-pollinated annual or perennial flowering plant. It was formerly known as Mimulus guttatus.
Erythranthe guttata is a model organism for biological studies, and in that context is still referred to as Mimulus guttatus. There may be as many as 1000 scientific papers focused on this species. The genome is being studied in depth.
Erythranthe guttata is cultivated in the specialty horticulture trade and available as an ornamental plant for: traditional gardens; natural landscape, native plant, and habitat gardens.
A herbaceous wildflower, Erythranthe guttata grows along the banks of streams and seeps throughout much of western North America from sea level to 12,000 feet (3,700 m). Both annual and perennial forms occur throughout the species' range. It blooms during spring at low elevations, during summer at high elevations.
The leaves are edible, both raw and cooked. Leaves are sometimes added to salads as a lettuce substitute. They have a slight bitter flavour.
Cardinal monkey flower · Ephemeral Monkeyflower · Lewis' monkeyflower · Erythranthe naiandina · Erythranthe peregrina · Monkeyflowers
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Erythranthe guttata 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.
