Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. The genus Mimulus is named for the Latin mimus. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. These plants are named for their funny-face-flowers that look like grinning Monkeys. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Within this species there are six recognized varieties that differ in flower size, color and other features. Some authorities prefer to list the genus as Diplacus. It is currently included in the Lopseed family but was previously in the Scrophularia. This genus has been subject to taxonomic debate. The stigmas are notably sensitive and will close after being touched. It’s one of three members of the genus Mimulus that you may encounter in the Golden Gate. The sticky monkey-flower ( Mimulus aurantiacus ), or bush monkey-flower, grows in the scrub and chaparral from Mendocino to Baja. They are pollinated by bees and hummingbirds. The flowers actually have 4-5 petals, but they’re fused in such a way that the corolla appears to have two main divisions. The flowers are tubular at the base and about 2 centimeters long with five broad lobes they occur in a variety of shades from white to red, the most common color being a light orange. It grows up to 1.2 meters tall, has deep green sticky leaves 3 to 7 centimeters long and up to a centimeter broad and flowering stems that grow vertically. The bush monkey-flower or sticky monkey-flower is a flowering perennial plant that grows in a subshrub form, native to southwestern North America from southwestern Oregon south through most of California and into Baja, Mexico. About Bush Monkey Flower (Diplacus aurantiacus) 82 Nurseries Carry This Plant
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