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Yellow Monkeyflower
Erythranthe guttata (Mimulus guttatus)
Family:
Lopseed (Phrymaceae)
AKA:
Seep Monkey Flower
Photo taken on:
July 4, 2007
Location:
Poverty Gulch, GV, CO
Life Zones:
Montane to subalpine
Habitat:
Wet soil, in streams
Grows erect to 22 inches tall with fleshy stems and oval to round leaves
with toothed edges. Flowers are an inch long and have two lips, two
lobes on the upper, three on the lower. The lower lip has red spots at
the base, the upper lip has none. |
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Roundleaf Monkeyflower
Erythranthe glabrata (Mimulus glabratus)
Family:
Lopseed (Phrymaceae)
AKA:
Smooth Monkeyflower, James' Monkeyflower
Photo taken on:
July 13, 2020
Location:
Agua Caliente Spring, Abiquiu, NM
Life Zones:
Plains and foothills
Habitat:
Moist, muddy soil, streambanks
Grows to 20 inches long, usually sprawling and
mat-forming, with smooth, often reddish, stems. Leaves are smooth and
round to 1" across with smooth edges. Flowers are 1/2" long with only 2 reddish-brown
spots on the lower petal and a hairy throat. A different growth pattern,
lower elevation and smaller flower than the Yellow Monkeyflower.
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