Scientific Name
Mimulus ringens
var.
ringens
Common Name
Monkey flower
Wildflowers
Plant Fact Sheets
Consumer Hort
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Height:
2 to 5 feet
Flower/fruit:
1 inch violet or blue-purple long-stalked, tubular, two-lipped flower; occurs in pairs in leaf axis; two yellow ridges in throat
Flowering Season:
Summer into fall
Foliage:
2 to 4 inch sessile lance-shaped leaves; often clasping; square stem
Site:
Bogs, marshes, stream banks, wet woods
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