Monardella macrantha

Hummingbird monardella

Family: Lamiaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Hummingbird monardella is a California native shrub found in rocky, mountainous habitats at elevations where its distinctive red-orange and yellow flowers attract pollinators. Flowering from late spring to summer, this plant produces vibrant red-orange tubular flowers with yellow highlights, typically 35 to 45 millimeters long, emerging from dense flower clusters 20 to 40 millimeters wide. Growing as a low, tufted subshrub with rhizomes, it spreads 5 to 30 centimeters tall with deep green, shiny leaves that are elliptic to triangular-ovate and have a leathery texture. Its leaves range from 5 to 30 millimeters long, appearing entire or with minute serrations along the edges, creating a compact and attractive form. The plant's unique flower structure features a bent, hairy calyx and a funnel-shaped corolla tube that extends prominently beyond the calyx, making it particularly attractive to hummingbirds.

California counties: San Diego, San Bernardino, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Riverside, Los Angeles, Orange

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