Erythranthe rubella

Redstem monkeyflower

Family: Phrymaceae · Type: annual · Native

Redstem monkeyflower is a California native annual found in the Tehachapi, Great Basin, and Desert Mountains in and around washes at elevations of 800 to 2,600 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces yellow or purple-magenta flowers with a tube-throat 6 to 10 millimeters long and a delicate limb 3 to 4 millimeters wide. Growing with slender stems 2 to 32 centimeters tall and minutely puberulent throughout, it has a delicate and compact form. Its leaves range from 3 to 31 millimeters long and 1 to 5 millimeters wide, varying from linear to elliptic, with proximal leaves slightly petioled and distal leaves sessile. The fruit is 3.5 to 7 millimeters long, developing from ascending pedicels that emerge from a glandular-puberulent calyx with rounded, ciliate lobes.

Habitat: Generally around washes

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: 800-2600 m

Bioregions: TR, GB, DMtns

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