Erythranthe parishii

Parish's monkeyflower, Parish's Monkeyflower

Family: Phrymaceae · Type: annual · Native

Parish's monkeyflower is a California native annual found in southern Sierra Nevada, southwestern California, western Deserts, and northern eastern Desert Mountains including Granite, New York, and Panamint Ranges on wet, sandy streambanks at elevations below 2,100 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces pale pink to white flowers with a tube-throat 9 to 14 millimeters long. Growing with hairy stems 3 to 85 centimeters tall, it spreads across sandy habitats with a delicate, branching structure. Its leaves are oblanceolate to ovate, 8 to 75 millimeters long, distinctively marked with three prominent veins radiating from the base. The fruit develops 6 to 10 millimeters long, maturing within a hairy calyx that expands to 13 millimeters.

Habitat: Uncommon. Wet, sandy streambanks

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: < 2100 m

Bioregions: s SN, SW, w D, n&ampe DMtns (Granite, New York mtns, Panamint Range)

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