Host an Event Volunteer Join Tickets

Support the plant database you love!

Share

Plant Database

Search for native plants by scientific name, common name or family. If you are not sure what you are looking for, try the Combination Search or our Recommended Species lists.

Enter a Plant Name:
Or you can choose a plant family:

Mimulus evanescens

Mimulus evanescens R.J. Meinke

Disappearing Monkey-flower, Disappearing Monkeyflower, Ephemeral Monkeyflower

Scrophulariaceae (Figwort family)

Synonym(s):

USDA Symbol: MIEV

USDA Native Status: L48 (N)

 

From the Image Gallery

No images of this plant

Plant Characteristics

Duration: Annual
Habit: Herb
Fruit Type: Capsule
Size Notes: Up to about 10 inches tall.

Bloom Information

Bloom Color: Red , Yellow
Bloom Time: May , Jun , Jul , Aug
Bloom Notes: Sometimes with red spots.

Distribution

USA: CA , ID , OR
Native Habitat: Drying edges, banks and beds of summer-dry watercourses, near drying edges of small lakes or impoundments, often among rocks and shoreline detritus, occasionally in moist protected areas beneath low shrubs.

Web Reference

Webref 30 - Calflora (2018) Calflora
Webref 38 - Flora of North America (2019) Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
Webref 23 - Southwest Environmental Information Network (2009) SEINet - Arizona Chapter

Additional resources

USDA: Find Mimulus evanescens in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Mimulus evanescens in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Mimulus evanescens

Metadata

Record Modified: 2020-11-09
Research By: CBR

Go back