Monardella linoides subsp. erecta

Family: Lamiaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Monardella linoides subsp. erecta is a California native shrub found in northern and eastern San Bernardino Mountains in conifer woodland and rocky soils at elevations of 1,800 to 2,600 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces white flowers with purple markings, appearing lavender, in compact clusters 7 to 18 millimeters wide. Growing with few stems from the base, reaching 15 to 30 centimeters tall, it develops a distinctively silvery appearance with fine, dense pubescence. Its narrow leaves are decurrent or sessile, approximately 12 to 19 millimeters long and 2 to 4 millimeters wide, with a silvery texture and elliptic shape tapering to an obtuse or acute tip. The flowers are supported by bracts 6 to 11 millimeters long, nearly equal in length to the puberulent and glandular-puberulent calyx.

Habitat: Conifer woodland, forest, rocky soils, outcrops

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 1800-2600 m

Bioregions: n&ampe SnBr.

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