Mimulus lewisii
Purple Monkeyflower

Family: Scrophulariaceae (Figwort family)

Photo taken at Stevens Pass, in moist area, near stream (0.1 to 1 meter away)

Flowers:

flowers 3 to 5.5 cm; corolla axillary, more or less bilabate; calyx 1.5 to 2.5 cm, strongly five angled, hairy, calyx lobes equal; pedicel generally greater than calyx, 30 to 70 mm

Leaves:

2 to 7 cm; palmately 3 to 5 veined; generally clasping at base; oblong to elliptic

Plant:

perennial; erect plants 25 to 100 cm tall; viscid-villous

Habitat:

middle to upper elevations

Distribution of species:

western Canada to northern California, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah

Distribution of genus:

more or less 100 species: western North America, Chile, eastern Asia, southern Africa, New Zealand and Australia