Erythranthe glaucescens

Shield-bracted monkeyflower

Family: Phrymaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Shield-bracted monkeyflower is a California native annual found in southern California Range Front and northern Sierra Nevada Foothill bioregions in seepage areas at elevations below 600 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces yellow flowers with a distinctive tube-throat 15 to 35 millimeters long. Growing 6 to 80 centimeters tall with an almost glabrous, glaucous appearance, it develops distinctively wide bracts 5 to 45 millimeters wide that form round disks completely encircling the stem. Its leaves are ovate to nearly round, ranging 5 to 70 millimeters long with petioles up to 60 millimeters. The fruit is 6 to 12 millimeters long with an asymmetrically swollen calyx and unequal lobes that curve upward.

Habitat: Seepage areas

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: < 600 m

Bioregions: s CaRF, n SNF.

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