Monardella villosa

Coyote-mint

Family: Lamiaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Coyote-mint is a California native shrub found in chaparral and coastal habitats at elevations ranging from low to mid-elevation areas. Flowering from May to September, this aromatic plant produces white to purple flowers in dense clusters 10 to 40 millimeters wide, with distinctive reflexed bracts. Growing with matted to erect stems 15 to 45 centimeters tall, it features soft, wavy hairs and a rhizomatous growth habit. Its leaves are small, 10 to 30 millimeters long, with lanceolate to ovate shapes, often serrated or crenate, and covered in glandular hairs. The plant's soft, spreading hairs and aromatic leaves make it a characteristic member of California's Mediterranean chaparral communities.

California counties: Lake, Marin, Mendocino, San Mateo, Humboldt, Shasta, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Alameda, Siskiyou, Monterey, San Benito, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Placer, Trinity, Santa Barbara, Calaveras, Colusa, Del Norte, Fresno, Kings, Sonoma, Contra Costa, Napa, Solano, Tuolumne, Merced, Tehama, Lassen, Tulare, El Dorado, Yolo, Sacramento, Plumas

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