Death Valley monkeyflower
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| Mimulus rupicola (Coville) A.L.Grant |
The Death Valley monkeyflower (Mimulus rupicola), is a flowering plant in the family Phrymaceae, native to the Mojave Desert of the southwestern United States. It is a perennial herbaceous plant, growing 1-17 cm tall, with oblanceolate leaves 2-6 cm long. It has pinkish flowers, often faint in color, and has a magenta-purple spot on each lobe.
Although quite rare, it can be found in shaded limestone crevices on steep canyon walls in the mountains bordering Death Valley.
[edit] References
- Jepson Flora Project
- Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Jon Mark Stewart, 1998, pg. 162
Fauna, Flora and Minerals
Borax • Chuckwalla • Death Valley monkeyflower • Death Valley pupfish • Devil's Hole pupfish • Salt Creek Pupfish
History
Death Valley Railroad • Greenwater • Lake Manly • Skidoo
Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad • Twenty mule team
Places
Amargosa Range / River / Valley • Ash Meadows NWR • Badwater • Ballarat • Beatty • Chloride City • Death Valley Junction • Eureka Dunes • Furnace Creek • Panamint City / Range / Springs / Valley • Racetrack • Rhyolite • Scotty's Castle • Stovepipe Wells • Telescope Peak • Trona • Ubehebe Crater • Zabriske Point
Transportation
CA SR127 • CA SR178 • CA SR190 • NV SR373 •NV SR374 • Trona Railway • US 95
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