Mimulus cardinalis

Scarlet Monkey Flower.

Size	Quantity	Price
Santa Margarita, CA
One Gallon	46	$ 8.99
Plants in production
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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

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

Communities for Mimulus cardinalis: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.

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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Mimulus cardinalis, Scarlet monkey flower

Mimulus cardinalis, dogface butterfly looking for a drink from the scarlet monkey flower

In this photo a flower of Mimulus cardinalis, Scarlet Monkey Flower, is being visited by a Sulfur butterfly.

Mimulus cardinalis, Alfalfa butterfly, or maybe a dogface butterfly on a scarlet monkey flower

Here you can see a side view of a flower of Mimulus cardinalis, Scarlet Monkey Flower.

Scarlet Monkey Flower, not red monkey flower

Scarlet monkey flower, Mimulus cardinalis flower

Scarlet Monkey Flower looks like cady to a Hummingbird.

Mimulus Cardinalis, Scarlet Monkey Flowers attract all sorts of pollinators

Scarlet Monkey Flower is bright red.

Scarlet Monkey Flowers, Mimulus cardinalis

Scarlet Monkey Flower, Mimulus cardinalis growing in the nursery.

A Hummingbird working a Mimulus cardinalis flower.

An old picture of Mmimulus cardinalis with an Anna hummingbird.

A short video of Mimulus cardinalis, Scarlet Monkey Flower

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