Monardella australis

Southern monardella

Family: Lamiaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Southern monardella is a California native shrub found in rocky, dry habitats across southern California mountain ranges. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces delicate white to rose-purple flowers in compact clusters 8 to 23 millimeters wide. Growing as a low, matted subshrub with decumbent to erect stems 10 to 35 centimeters tall, it spreads through underground rhizomes. Its narrow leaves are 5 to 30 millimeters long, ranging from lanceolate to triangular-ovate, with a green to ash-gray coloration and occasionally wavy margins. The plant's distinctive flower bracts are narrowly lanceolate, often tinged with green, red, or purple, and form a cup-like involucre around the delicate blossoms.

California counties: Riverside, Los Angeles, San Bernardino

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