- Mimulus breweri
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Mimulus breweri Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Asterids Order: Lamiales Family: Phrymaceae Genus: Mimulus Species: M. breweri Binomial name Mimulus breweri
(Greene) CovilleMimulus breweri is a species of monkeyflower known by the common name Brewer's monkeyflower. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Colorado, where it grows in moist spots in several habitat types. This is a hairy annual herb producing a thin, erect stem up to 21 centimeters tall. The herbage is reddish green in color. The paired opposite leaves are linear in shape and up to 3.5 centimeters long. The plant bears small tubular flowers, each with its base encapsulated in a lightly hairy calyx of sepals with tiny equal lobes at its mouth. The five-lobed flower corolla is just a few millimeters long and light purplish pink in color, often with darker spots in the throat.
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Categories:- Phrymaceae
- Flora of the Northwestern United States
- Flora of Western Canada
- Flora of California
- Flora of Oregon
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada region (U.S.)
- Cascade Range
- Lamiales stubs
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