Erythranthe arvensis

Villous-bracted monkeyflower

Family: Phrymaceae · Type: annual · Native

Villous-bracted monkeyflower is a California native annual found in wet places at elevations of 30 to 1,900 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces yellow flowers with soft-hairy bracts in small racemes. Growing with erect to ascending stems 5 to 70 centimeters tall, it has a fibrous root system. Its leaves are ovate to round, typically 5 to 35 millimeters long, with crenate edges and occasionally irregularly small-lobed bases. The plant produces small fruits 5 to 7 millimeters long, with asymmetrically swollen calyces that have unequal lobes.

Habitat: Common. Wet places

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: 30-1900 m

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