Red Monkeyflower Flower Red Monkeyflower Flower Marshall Gulch 6/15/17. Red Monkeyflower Flower Red Monkeyflower Stem Red Monkeyflower Leaves Red Monkeyflower Plant


Wildflowers of Southern Arizona


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Red Monkeyflower.
Erythranthe cardinalis.
Lopseed (Phrymaceae) family.

The flowers have yellow, projecting stamens and are tubular, 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide, and 2-lipped with a narrow, arched forward upper lip and a broad, 3-lobed, reflexed lower lip. The leaves are green, hairy, toothed, opposite, oblong to egg-shaped, and longitudinally veined with 3 to 5 main veins. The upper leaves clasp the stems. The stems are upright to decumbent.


Location: Santa Catalina Mountains.


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