YELLOW MONKEY FLOWER (Mimulus luteus, L.). Flowers 

 bright yellow, often dark-dotted within, corolla 2-lipped, an 

 inch or two long, the prominent base of the lower lip often 

 blotched with brown; borne in a loose, terminal raceme. 

 Leaves opposite, roundish, sharp-toothed, an inch long or so, 

 the upper closely sessile. A small, leafy plant of very variable 

 habit, annual or perennial, from less than a foot to sometimes 

 4 feet high, spreading by slender, creeping stems. Blooming 

 from April till August in wet places and on stream banks 

 throughout California northward to Alaska, and eastward to 

 the Rocky Mountains. 



There are many yellow flowered species of Monkey Flower, 

 but the frequency of Mimulus luteus over a wide territory of 

 the Pacific Coast, seems to entitle it to being called the Yel- 

 low Monkey Flower. A common yellow species of Southern 

 California, blooming from April to June upon dryish hillsides, 

 is Mimulus brevipes, Benth. a sticky-hairy little annual a foot 

 or two high, with narrow, opposite leaves. The flowers are 

 borne on very short footstalks. 



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