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.

See the BSBI distribution map for Monkeyflower

It is a neophyte 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