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Erythranthe suksdorfii
Also called Miniature Monkeyflower
Suksdorf's monkeyflower is a small, short-lived annual wildflower of western North America, growing 3 to 10 cm tall with yellow, red-spotted flowers. It is a wild native that prefers moist springtime soil, so it suits native or wildlife gardens more than typical containers.
Erythranthe suksdorfii, with the common names Suksdorf's monkeyflower and miniature monkeyflower, is an annual flowering plant in the family Phrymaceae (Lopseed). It was formerly known as Mimulus suksdorfii. A specimen collected in Washington state in 1885 by the self-taught immigrant botanist Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf was identified as a new species by Asa Gray in 1886, who named it in Suksdorf's honor. It was moved to the genus Erythranthe in 2012 by Naomi Fraga. It can easily be misidentified with Erythranthe breviflora, which generally has elliptic leaves rather than the linear or oblong leaves found in E. suksdorfii.
E. suksdorfii is native to Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. The plant prefers valleys and foothills in mountainous areas at elevations of 130–2,160 meters (430–7,090 ft). It grows well in wetland-riparian areas that are moist in springtime and forests with Yellow Pine, Red Fir, and/or Lodgepole Pine in subalpine regions. Soils with good drainage are preferred. Its range has been severely impacted by human activity, resulting in having the status of "sensitive" from the Bureau of Land Management and United States Forest Service.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Erythranthe suksdorfii 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.
