Diplacus angustatus

Purplelip pansy monkeyflower

Family: Phrymaceae · Type: annual · Native

Purplelip pansy monkeyflower is a California native annual found in central and southern North Coast Ranges, southern California Ranges, and northern and southern Sierra Nevada Foothill regions in vernally wet depressions at elevations of 250 to 1,200 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces magenta-purple flowers with a distinctive large, dark purple spot at the base of the lowest corolla lobe. Growing with compact stems less than one centimeter tall and forming dense, small clusters, it remains mostly glabrous with minimal hairiness. Its leaves are linear, 5 to 36 millimeters long, with cilia along at least the proximal half of the leaf margin. The fruit is a small, hard, slightly oblique-ovoid structure measuring 2 to 4 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Vernally wet depressions

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: 250-1200 m

Bioregions: c NCoRO (Longvale, Mendocino Co.), s NCoRI, s CaRF, n SNF, s SNF (Pinehurst, Fresno Co.).

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