rock bush monkeyflower
From central and southern California, this monkeyflower is similar to our local species, but has large, creamy-yellow, trumpet shaped flowers. Grows 2 - 3 ft tall and a t least as wide, and flowers from late spring, well into the summer. For sun to light shade with good draining soils and occasional summer water. Flowers attract hummingbirds, bees and butterflies and is a larval food source for checkerspot and painted lady butterflies. Deer resistant.
Previously known as: Mimulus longiflorus ssp. calycinus