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Yellow And White Monkeyflower
Erythranthe bicolor
  
About Yellow And White Monkeyflower (Erythranthe bicolor) 0 Nurseries Carry This Plant The Yellow and White Monkeyflower, Erythranthe bicolor (formerly Mimulus bicolor), is an annual herb endemic to California. It is found from the Klamath and Cascade Range south through the western Sierra Nevada, in mountain and foothill locales. It grows in moist or wet areas, often in clay soils.

This annual wildflower produces a hairy, erect stem 1.5 to 10.5 inches (4-27 cm) tall, and blooms from April to June its native range. The linear to nearly oval leaves are each up to 3 centimeters long and arranged in opposite pairs about the stem. The tubular base of the flower is surrounded by a reddish-green freckled calyx of sepals with small, pointed lobes.
The flower corolla is 1 to 2 centimeters long and divided into two lips. The upper lip has two lobes, the lower three, and each lobe has two sub-lobes at its tip. The two lips vary in color but often the upper lip is white and the lower is yellow.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Annual herb

Size
Size
1.6 - 10.7 in tall

Flower Color
Flower Color
White, Yellow

Flowering Season
Flowering Season
Spring

Wildlife Supported
 


 
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Landscaping Information
Common uses
Common uses
Hummingbird Gardens, Butterfly Gardens, Bee Gardens

Natural Setting
Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 18.6" - 82.8", Summer Precipitation: 0.37" - 2.93", Coldest Month: 28.0" - 52.0", Hottest Month: 55.2" - 77.6", Humidity: 0.57" - 25.16", Elevation: 199" - 7211"

Alternative Names
Botanical Names: Mimulus bicolor


Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. 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. 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.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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