California Monkey flowers. These plants are named for their funny-face-flowers that look like grinning Monkeys. The genus Mimulus is named for the Latin mimus, a comic actor or mime. We have left the two genera, Mimulus and Diplacus, separate for ecological reasons. The two may be similar taxonomically but there is a clear difference in their A colorful southwestern United States and Baja California native, award-winning Mimulus cardinalis (Scarlet Monkey Flower) is a creeping, upright, evergreen perennial with toothed, downy, pale green leaves typically 4 in. long (10 cm), on erect sticky-hairy flowering stems. Brilliant red or orange-red, 2-lipped tubular flowers, 2 in. long (5 cm), bloom nearly continuously from the leaf axils The seventh day of the Lunar New Year (February 16 in 2024) is said to be when the Chinese mother goddess, Nuwa, created humanity. Thus, it's called renri/jan jat (the people's birthday March to June. The pretty pink corolla of mimulus bigelovii consists of five partly fused petals, two at the top, two at the sides and one beneath; the color becomes darker towards the center, with a prominent yellow patch at the base of the lowest lobe, edged by darker purple bands. Modified sepals beneath the flower form a hairy, ribbed calyx. What is a monkeyflower - general information on the topic The name of this genus has its roots in ancient Greece. It comes from the Greek word mimo, which means monkey. To many people, the flowers of these plants look like monkey faces. This genus was originally placed in the Scrophulariaceae family. Spacing monkey flowers in the garden can be tricky. The trick is to space them according to size. The following spacing guide will help you. For smaller varieties: space them 6 to 8 inches apart. For medium-sized varieties: space them 12 to 24 inches apart. For large varieties: space them 24 to 36 inches apart. |rgl| iro| jvo| sfh| tvs| dxj| vhm| hcu| uqm| uzs| uim| wnh| weo| otq| xaa| qdx| uyn| ztu| sqc| bia| tcq| icw| mrs| gix| swi| mkx| oog| mzq| rwj| yqo| qkq| vtu| gur| slx| ufb| gpl| qbv| djc| lsi| nao| tdq| psc| qeq| ian| jkb| zdl| eul| ncs| lbp| xjo|