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Thyridia repens
Also called Creeping Monkey Flower
Thyridia repens, with the common names creeping monkeyflower, native musk, purple musk, Māori musk, and native monkey flower, is a herbaceous succulent plant native to New Zealand and Australia that grows as low mats beside the sea. Its flowers are light purple or white.
This species is found in the North and South Islands of New Zealand, as well as Tasmania and mainland Australia. It is coastal, found usually on muddy or silty flats periodically inundated by high tides. In New Zealand, the species is widely but sparsely distributed and naturally uncommon, especially in the Auckland area (although Thomas Kirk collected the type specimens of its synonym, Mimulus colensoi, at marshes in Onehunga). Resistant to being submerged by salt water, it cannot tolerate taller-growing plants or more vigorous prostrate species, and in some parts of the country is threatened by the spread of the salt grasses Spartina or Carex divisa.
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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.
