Monardella breweri

Brewer's monardella

Family: Lamiaceae · Type: annual · Native

Brewer's monardella is a California native annual herb found in dry, open areas at mid-elevations. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces rose to purple flowers in compact clusters 5 to 30 millimeters wide, with distinctive glandular-tipped upper corolla lobes. Growing with erect, branched stems 9 to 65 centimeters tall that are covered in short gray hairs, it has a delicate and slightly fuzzy appearance. Its leaves are lance-shaped, 15 to 60 millimeters long, with short hairs and slender petioles. The plant's flower clusters are adorned with green to papery bracts that are narrowly to widely ovate and occasionally have stiff-pointed tips.

California counties: Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Fresno, Kern, San Luis Obispo, Alameda, Monterey, Santa Barbara, San Benito, Tehama, Tuolumne, El Dorado, Nevada, Santa Cruz

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