Erythranthe arenaria (A.L.Grant) G.L.Nesom is a plant in the Phrymaceae family, order Lamiales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Erythranthe arenaria (A.L.Grant) G.L.Nesom

Erythranthe arenaria (A.L.Grant) G.L.Nesom

Erythranthe arenaria, the sand-loving monkeyflower, is a flowering plant native to the Sierra Nevada mountains of eastern California, reclassified from Mimulus in 2012.

Family
Genus
Erythranthe
Order
Lamiales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Erythranthe arenaria (A.L.Grant) G.L.Nesom

Erythranthe arenaria (A.L.Grant) G.L.Nesom, a species of flowering plant, was formerly classified as Mimulus arenarius and is commonly called sand-loving monkeyflower. It is native to eastern California in the United States, occurring specifically in the central and southern Sierra Nevada mountains. It typically grows in sandy flats, sand bars, washes, and seasonal creek beds, found across both the foothills and High Sierra regions. Its type specimen was collected near Huntington Lake in Fresno County in 1917. This species was reclassified from the genus Mimulus to the genus Erythranthe in 2012.

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Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Lamiales Phrymaceae Erythranthe

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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