Seasonal Wild Flowers

Monkeyflower

Mimulus guttatus

Phrymaceae

Late May to September

It is mainly found on the western side of the country.

It is patchy on the eastern side.

For a map see the National Biodiversity Network Gateway

It is a neophyre which was introduced in the early 1800s and

planted in garden ponds and wet areas.

It has been known in the wild since the mid 1820s in ponds, by

streams and in wet marshes, meadows and woods.

Monkeyflower is a robust, perennial herb growing up to 75cm.

Flowers are large (up to 4.5cm), bright yellow, lipped and with

orange red spots and white hairs on the central large lip.

Upper leaves are unstalked, opposite and toothed.

Lower leaves may be stalked.

It spreads by seed and rooting nodes.

Monkeyflower on the bank of a stream

Monkeyflower

Single flower

Hairs and spots

Upper leaves and calyx

Leaves