| Mimulus jepsonii | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Phrymaceae |
| Genus: | Mimulus |
| Species: | M. jepsonii |
| Binomial name | |
| Mimulus jepsonii A.L.Grant |
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Mimulus jepsonii is a species of monkeyflower known by the common name Jepson's monkeyflower. It is native to the mountains and woodlands of northern California and southern Oregon, where it often grows in the shade of pine trees.
This is an annual herb producing a thin, erect stem up to about 10 centimeters long. The purple-green leaves are linear to oval in shape and up to 1.4 centimeters in length. The pinkish purple flower is around a centimeter long, its five-lobed mouth with broad yellow strips and purple spotting.
This plant is sometimes nearly identical to its relative, Mimulus nanus, and can be differentiated from it only by close examination of characteristics such as the arrangement of hairs inside the mouth of the flower.[1]