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Broadtooth Monkeyflower

Erythranthe latidens

Broadtooth Monkeyflower
Photo: Chloe and Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0

Broadtooth monkeyflower is a small annual wildflower from the Phrymaceae family, native to seasonally wet valleys and coastal hills of Oregon, California and Baja California. It grows best in cool, moist conditions during its wet season and dries out as summer arrives.

Family
Phrymaceae (Phrym family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist during the growing season, then let it dry as the plant finishes.
Soil
Clay or heavy loam that holds moisture
Temperature
10–24 °C; tolerates cool winters, protect from hard frost
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Oregon to Mexico (Baja California Norte)
Climate
temperate

About

Erythranthe latidens, synonym Mimulus latidens, is a species of monkeyflower known by the common name broadtooth monkeyflower.

It is native to the valleys and coastal mountains of Oregon, California, and Baja California state in Mexico below 900 meters elevation. It grows in seasonally moist areas, such as vernal pools, typically on clay soils.

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 latidens 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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