Mimulus tilingii (Large Mountain/Tiling's Monkeyflower)

7/8/16 Along Mill Creek, Lundy Canyon Trail, Inyo National Forest,

Eastern Sierra, Mono County, CA

 7/4/16 Seep off Rock Creek Road, Inyo National Forest,
Eastern Sierra, Mono County, CA

7/4/16 Seep off Rock Creek Road, Inyo National Forest,
Eastern Sierra, Mono County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Large Mountain/Tiling's Monkeyflower

SPECIES: Mimulus tilingii

FAMILY: Phrymaceae (Lopseed Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 7/4/2016

LOCATION: Seep off Rock Creek Road, Inyo National Forest, Eastern Sierra, Mono County, CA

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

Perennial, 2–35 cm, rhizomed, glabrous to ± hairy

Leaf: petiole 0–25 mm; blade 5–30 mm, elliptic to ± round; pairs at nodes not fused

Inflorescence: flowers 1–5 per stem, solitary in axils of upper leaves, not in bracted raceme

Flowers opening; pedicel 10–90 mm; calyx 7–25 mm, asymmetrically swollen in fruit, glabrous to puberulent, lobes unequal, lowest 2 upcurved in fruit; corolla yellow, tube-throat 17–45 mm; placentas axile

Fruit 5–10 mm

Ecology: Seeps, streamsides, wet meadows

Elevation: 1400–3400 m.  

Bioregional distribution: Northwestern California, High Cascade Range, High Sierra Nevada, San Bernardino Mountains, San Jacinto Mountains, n East of Sierra Nevada (Sweetwater Mtns), White and Inyo Mountains 

Distribution outside California: to Alaska, Montana, Colorado

Flowering time: Jul–Sep

Intergrades with  M. guttatus in some areas

Horticultural information: WET or IRR: 1, 2, 3, 7, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 &SUN: 4, 5, 6, 15, 16, 17.