Diplacus grandiflorus

Sticky monkeyflower

Family: Phrymaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Sticky monkeyflower is a California native shrub found in northern Sierra Nevada and northern South Coast Ranges on steep canyon banks and rocky hillsides at elevations of 90 to 1,530 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces pale yellow to white or orange flowers with distinctive two-lobed corolla lobes, typically two flowers per node. Growing with minutely coarse-hairy stems as a subshrub or shrub, it reaches moderate heights with an upright, branching structure. Its leaves are narrowly elliptic to linear, uniformly green and glabrous, with edges that remain flat or slightly rolled under during drought conditions. The plant produces fruits 16 to 25 millimeters long that split along the upper suture.

Habitat: Steep banks of canyons, rocky hillsides

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: 90-1530(1830) m

Bioregions: n SN, n SCoR.

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.