Mimulus floribundus

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

Mimulus deltoides
Mimulus geniculatus
Mimulus membranaceus
Mimulus multiflorus
Mimulus peduncularis
Mimulus pubescens
Mimulus serotinus

Mimulus floribundus is a species of monkeyflower known by the common name many-flowered monkeyflower. It is native to western North America from western Canada to California and northern Mexico, to the Rocky Mountains. It grows in many types of habitat, especially moist areas.

Description

This plant is variable in morphology, taking several forms. In general it is an annual herb with a thin stem 3 to 50 centimeters long, growing upright or decumbent. In texture it is hairy and sometimes slimy. The oppositely arranged leaves vary in size and shape. The tubular base of the flower is encapsulated in a hairy calyx of sepals with pointed lobes. The corolla of the flower is yellow and up to 1.5 centimeters long.

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