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Monardella douglasii Benth. is a plant in the Lamiaceae family, order Lamiales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

Photo of Monardella douglasii Benth. (Monardella douglasii Benth.)
Plantae

Monardella douglasii Benth.

Monardella douglasii Benth.

Monardella douglasii Benth. is a hairy annual herb endemic to northern California that grows in various local habitats.

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Family
Genus
Monardella
Order
Lamiales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Monardella douglasii Benth.

Monardella douglasii Benth. is a hairy annual herb. It produces a branching purple stem that grows up to around 30 centimeters tall.

Leaf Traits

Its leaves are arranged oppositely and vary in shape.

Inflorescence Features

The inflorescence forms a head holding several flowers, which blooms from within a cup of translucent bracts that have green and purple veins. The purple flowers measure just over one centimeter long.

Monardella douglasii is endemic to northern California. It is found in several areas of the Inner Southern California Coast Ranges, including the Diablo Range, and in the nearby valleys of the southern San Francisco Bay Area.

Habitat Types

This plant grows in many different habitat types, including grassland, chaparral, foothill oak woodland, and rocky serpentine slopes.

Photo: (c) David Greenberger, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by David Greenberger · cc-by-nc-nd

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Lamiales Lamiaceae Monardella

More from Lamiaceae

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

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