Mimulus brevipes

Mimulus brevipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Phrymaceae
Genus: Mimulus
Species: M. brevipes
Binomial name
Mimulus brevipes
Benth.

Mimulus brevipes is a species of monkeyflower known by the common name widethroat yellow monkeyflower.

Distribution

It is native to the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges and other mountains and foothills of southern California and Baja California. Mimulus brevipes grows in chaparral, especially open areas such as those recently cleared by wildfire.

Description

Mimulus brevipes is a hairy annual herb producing an erect stem reaching maximum heights anywhere between 5 and 80 centimeters tall. The paired opposite leaves are lance-shaped to oval and are up to 9 centimeters long.

The tubular throat of the flower is encapsulated in a hairy calyx of sepals up to 2.5 centimeters long with pointed tips, some longer than others. The bright yellow flower corolla is up to 3 centimeters long with five lobes at the mouth, two on the upper lip and three on the lower.

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