Monardella hypoleuca subsp. lanata

Felt-leaved monardella, Felt-Leaved Monardella

Family: Lamiaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2

Felt-leaved monardella is a rare (CNPS 1B.2) California native shrub found in southwestern Peninsular Ranges in San Diego County chaparral on rocky, granitic slopes and hilltops at elevations of 300 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from May to October, this plant produces white flowers in compact clusters 11 to 25 millimeters wide, surrounded by narrow ovate bracts. Growing with densely hairy stems 10 to 50 centimeters tall, it forms a cespitose (clustered) habit with a strongly sweet scent. Its leaves are lance-linear, 20 to 40 millimeters long, arched between rolled-under margins and densely hairy on the upper surface. The plant produces a calyx 8 to 9 millimeters long with a white corolla 12 to 16 millimeters long.

Habitat: Chaparral, rocky, granitic slopes or hilltops

Bloom period: May-Oct

Elevation: 300-1500 m

Bioregions: sw PR (San Diego Co.)

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