Diplacus johnstonii

Johnston's monkeyflower

Family: Phrymaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Johnston's monkeyflower is a native annual herb found in the southern Gabilan and southern Baja California mountain ranges on road banks and disturbed areas, especially scree slopes, at elevations of 975 to 2,920 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces magenta flowers with yellow throat floors and distinctive dark maroon patches at the corolla mouth. Growing with fine white-puberulent stems 3 to 20 centimeters tall, it has a delicate and compact form. Its leaves are oblanceolate to obovate, 7 to 30 millimeters long with generally acute tips. The fruit is 7 to 12 millimeters long with an oblique calyx mouth and unequal erect to spreading lobes.

Habitat: Road banks, disturbed areas, especially scree

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: generally 975-2920 m

Bioregions: SnGb, SnBr.

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