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Crisped Monardella
Monardella undulata ssp. crispa
  
2 Nurseries Carry This Plant

About Crisped Monardella (Monardella undulata ssp. crispa) 2 Nurseries Carry This Plant Monardella crispa is a rare species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name crisp monardella. It is endemic to California, where it is known only from the sand dunes on the coastline of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties. It is an aromatic perennial herb growing in a spreading woolly mat or mound with one or more stems up to half a meter in length. The fleshy, waxy, sometimes woolly leaves are 1 to 5 centimeters long and borne in clusters along the stem. The flower cluster is a head of several flowers blooming in a cup of papery, hairy purplish to straw-colored leafs. The flowers are purplish pink in color.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Annual herb

Size
Size
1.6 ft tall

Flower Color
Flower Color
Purple

Wildlife Supported
 


 
Butterflies & moths hosted ( 7 likely * ) SHOW ALL
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Hyles lineata Image
White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineataHyles lineata
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Shasta Pyrausta Pyrausta perrubralisPyrausta perrubralis
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Pyrausta nexalis Image
Fulvous-edged Pyrausta Pyrausta nexalisPyrausta nexalis
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Argyrotaenia franciscana Image
Orange Tortrix Moth Argyrotaenia franciscanaArgyrotaenia franciscana
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Areniscythris brachypteris Image
Oso Flaco Flightless Moth Areniscythris brachypterisAreniscythris brachypteris
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Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla Image
Anstenoptilia marmarodactylaAnstenoptilia marmarodactyla
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Pyrausta dapalis Image
Pyrausta dapalisPyrausta dapalis

Landscaping Information
Sun
Sun
Full Sun

Nurseries
Nurseries
Carried by 2

Common uses
Common uses
Hummingbird Gardens, Butterfly Gardens, Bee Gardens

Natural Setting
Site Type
Site Type
Unstable dunes

Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 13.6" - 20.8", Summer Precipitation: 0.18" - 0.28", Coldest Month: 46.4" - 50.9", Hottest Month: 63.0" - 71.4", Humidity: 0.84" - 16.22", Elevation: 11" - 1474"

Alternative Names
Common Names: Crisp Monardella, Crisped Mountainbalm, Dune Monardella


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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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