Diplacus longiflorus

Sticky monkeyflower

Family: Phrymaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Sticky monkeyflower is a native shrub found in southern Sierra Nevada, southern Central Western California, southwestern California including Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa islands, and southern Desert Mountains in well-drained, exposed sites at elevations of 7 to 2,440 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces orange to pale yellow-orange flowers with long tubular corollas reaching 34 to 50 millimeters in length. Growing as a glandular-puberulent subshrub with short soft hairs, it develops erect stems with distinctive growth patterns. Its narrowly elliptic leaves have serrate edges that curl slightly under during drought conditions, with hairy undersides featuring stellate hairs. The fruit develops 18 to 30 millimeters long, splitting along its upper suture.

Habitat: Well-drained, exposed sites; crevices in boulders or rock outcrops in desert areas

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: 7-2440 m

Bioregions: s SN, s CW, SW (incl Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa islands), s DMtns

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