Diplacus bolanderi

Bolander's monkeyflower

Family: Phrymaceae · Type: annual · Native

Bolander's monkeyflower is a California native annual found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada, central western California, and western Transverse Ranges in granite outcrops, chaparral openings, and disturbed areas at elevations of 300 to 1,700 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces magenta flowers with a white throat floor, featuring delicate magenta hairs and blooming in pedicels 2 to 5 millimeters long. Growing 2 to 90 centimeters tall with generally dense hair coverage, it develops an erect or spreading form with multiple branching stems. Its leaves range from 5 to 60 millimeters long, changing from glabrous proximal leaves to densely hairy distal leaves, with shapes varying from oblanceolate to ovate. The fruit develops 8 to 20 millimeters long, with a calyx that becomes notably swollen and widely ribbed.

Habitat: Granite outcrops, burns, openings in chaparral, disturbed areas

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: generally 300-1700 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoR, SN (common c SNF), CW, WTR.

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