Mimulus cardinalis

Identification

Mimulus cardinalis Scarlet Monkey Flower.
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Mimulus cardinalis, Scarlet monkey flower
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Mimulus cardinalis, dogface butterfly looking for a drink from the scarlet monkey flower
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Mimulus cardinalis, Alfalfa butterfly, or maybe a dogface butterfly on a scarlet monkey flower
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Scarlet Monkey Flower, not red monkey flower
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Scarlet Monkey Flower looks like cady to a Hummingbird.
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Scarlet Monkey Flower
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Scarlet Monkey Flower
A Hummingbird working a Mimulus cardinalis flower. - grid24_3
An old picture of Mmimulus cardinalis with an Anna hummingbird.

Description

A perennial to 3'. It likes sun to full shade and regular water. It has 2" red tubular flowers most of the year. An aggressive seeder that should be used in revegetation or large gardens, (or for those people that kill every thing else). It's serpentine tolerant and an important Hummingbird flower. The flowers are very showy and liked by most. I've seen it in the bottom of creeks with water flowing around it and it has survived in regular gardens well with 1/week water. It is native in the mountains surrounding the deserts. The British cultivate it and say it needs a sheltered location! It loves the nursery! (It's like a relative with too big of a family.) Click here for more about Monkeys in California

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Characteristics

Mimulus cardinalis Scarlet Monkey Flower tolerates sand, clay, serpentine, no drainage and seasonal flooding.
Mimulus cardinalis Scarlet Monkey Flower is great for a bird garden.
Mimulus cardinalis Scarlet Monkey Flower's foliage type is evergreen.
Mimulus cardinalis Scarlet Monkey Flower's flower color is red.

Communities

Communities for Mimulus cardinalis Scarlet Monkey Flower:Chaparral, Closed-cone Pine Forest, Coastal Strand, Douglas Fir Forest, Red Fir Forest, Mixed-evergreen Forest, Riparian (rivers & creeks), Southern Oak Woodland and Yellow Pine Forest.

Ranges for Mimulus cardinalis

ph: 4.00 to 9.00
usda: 5 to 10
height[m]: 0.50 to 1.00
width[m]: 0.30 to 1.00
rainfall[cm]: 101.00 to 1550.00

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