Diplacus viscidus

Viscid monkeyflower

Family: Phrymaceae · Type: annual · Native

Viscid monkeyflower is a California native annual found in the Sierra Nevada foothills from El Dorado to northern Mariposa counties in burned areas, chaparral openings, and disturbed sites at elevations of 90 to 1,250 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces lavender to magenta flowers with darker markings, 8 to 20 millimeters wide, featuring a white or yellowish throat with distinctive dark red-purple stripes along the lobe midveins. Growing 6 to 37 centimeters tall with hairy stems, it develops a delicate branching structure with scattered stems. Its leaves range from 4 to 45 millimeters long, mostly obovate to narrowly elliptic, with the lowest leaves typically glabrous. The flower's calyx is widely ribbed, swollen, and densely hairy, measuring 8 to 15 millimeters long with slightly unequal lobes.

Habitat: Burns, openings in chaparral, disturbed areas

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: 90-1250 m

Bioregions: SNF (El Dorado to n Mariposa cos.).

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