Diplacus traskiae

Santa catalina island monkeyflower, Santa Catalina Island Monkeyflower

Family: Phrymaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1A

Santa catalina island monkeyflower is a rare (CNPS 1A) California native annual found in the southern Channel Islands on Santa Catalina Island at an unspecified elevation. Flowering from March to April, this plant produces white and red-purple flowers with a flower tube 20 to 23 millimeters long and a limb 4 to 5 millimeters wide. Growing 8 to 12 centimeters tall with distinctive hairy stems, it develops as a delicate annual herb. Its leaves are ovate to obovate, 12 to 41 millimeters long, with ciliate edges near the base and petioles 1 to 12 millimeters in length. The fruit is approximately 8 millimeters long, oblique-oblong in shape, and appears to be hard and probably indehiscent.

Habitat: Presumed extinct; habitat and elevation unknown

Bloom period: Probably Mar-Apr

Bioregions: s ChI (Avalon, Santa Catalina Island).

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