Seep Monkey Flower
Mimulus guttatus
(M. nasutus)
Photographed at Mesquite Wash, Maricopa Co., Arizona. April 2008.
FLOWERS: Yellow, two-lipped flowers. The green calyx below the corolla
is asymetrical - some teeth much enlarged - and it expands as fruit matures.
ANNUAL: Along riparian stretches that remain damp this succulent,
herbaceous plant may develope perennial rizomes below soil. Robust plants can
be a meter tall and wide.
LEAVES: Leaves are mostly round but can be quite small or large from
population to population and depending on moisture availability. Margins
typically with rounded teeth.
RANGE: Frequent throughout the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and Mexico
along intermitent streams especially in canyons with plenty of moist sand.
Flowering mostly in mid to late spring.
FRUIT: Dry capsules with many seeds.
UNARMED.