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Mimulus aurantiacus
Also called Bush Monkey Flower, Orange Bush Monkey Flower, Sticky Or Orange Bush Monkey Flower, Bush Monkeyflower, Orange Bush Monkeyflower, Orange Sticky Monkeyflower, Sticky Monkey Flower
A bushy evergreen subshrub native to western North America, grown for its orange tubular flowers that attract bees and hummingbirds. It is drought tolerant and adapts to many soil types, including serpentine, and is often short-lived in cultivation.
Diplacus aurantiacus, the sticky monkey-flower or orange bush monkey-flower, is a flowering plant that grows in a subshrub form, native to western North America from southwestern Oregon south through Northern and Central California. It is a member of the lopseed family, Phrymaceae, and was formerly known as Mimulus aurantiacus.
This bushy evergreen shrub can be short-lived in cultivation. The species and its cultivars are used in water conserving, native plant, and habitat gardens. It is often grown under glass in temperate zones.
In the UK it has won the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Diplacus aurantiacus supports multiple species of caterpillars, including the Variable Checkerspot, and also supports hummingbirds.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Diplacus aurantiacus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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