Monardella viridis

Green monardella

Family: Lamiaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Green monardella is a California native shrub found in southern North Coast Ranges Interior including Napa, Lake, and Sonoma counties in chaparral, oak woodland, and conifer forest at elevations of 150 to 800 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces rose to purple flowers in dense clusters 10 to 20 millimeters wide. Growing as a cespitose subshrub with ascending to erect stems 10 to 50 centimeters tall, it forms compact clusters. Its petioled leaves are 5 to 20 millimeters long and 4 to 7 millimeters wide, with upper surfaces nearly smooth and lower surfaces finely covered in appressed white hairs. The flower bracts are typically lanceolate to ovate, measuring 6 to 10 millimeters long.

Habitat: Chaparral, oak woodland, conifer forest, also serpentine

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 150-800 m

Bioregions: s NCoRI (Napa, Lake, Sonoma cos.).

California counties: Napa, Sonoma, Lake, Mendocino, Plumas, Mariposa, Butte, El Dorado

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