[Monkey Flowers: The Genera Diplacus, Erythranthe and Mimulus West of the Cascade Mts. of Oregon and Washington]
Brewer's Monkeyflower, Brewer's Monkey-flower
Erythranthe breweri
Synonyms: Mimulus breweri, Mimulus rubellus var. breweri
Brewer's monkeyflower as seen on west-facing slopes between Bigelow Lakes and the north shoulder of Mt. Elijah, Siskiyou National Forest........July 14, 2012. Note the numerous gland-tipped hairs on the flower and leaves.
Characteristics:
Brewer's monkey flower is a small annual to 18 cm tall. The
herbage is abundantly glandular. The stems are slender and simple to sometimes
branched. The leaves are long and thin and linear in shape and range from 1-2
cm long and 1-4 mm wide.
The calyx is 3-6 mm long with 5 teeth of roughly equal size. The
corolla is lavender to violet, sometimes marked with yellow. The corolla is 5-10
mm long and barely 2 mm wide at the throat. The lobes are similar but not identical,
and the flower is slightly two lipped. Each lobe may have a short notch at the
tip as seen in the upper photo.
Habitat:
Brewer's monkey flower is found in moist areas near streams,
seep areas, or on moist forest slopes or rocky cliffs.
Range:
Brewer's monkey flower may be found from southern British Columbia,
south along the eastern edge of the Cascade Mts to southeast California, east
to western Montana, and south to Utah and Nevada.
The photo above shows a close-up of brewer's monkey flower as seen on west-facing slopes below the Ray Ridge Viewpoint in the Umatilla N.F. of southeastern Washington.......July 6, 2008.
The photo above shows a close-up of the flower and upper stem leaves of brewer's monkey flower as seen on west-facing slopes below the Ray Ridge Viewpoint in the Umatilla N.F. of southeastern Washington........July 6, 2008. Note the numerous gland-tipped hairs on the flower and leaves.
Paul Slichter