Sometimes we fall into the trap of thinking that California native plants are less colorful and interesting than the great many nonnative options. The genus that proves conclusively that natives can ...

Alameda resident Richard Persoff has devoted 20 years to taming the native bush monkey flower, Mimulus aurantiacus. Although his professional background as a chemist, photographer and insurance ...

Today’s column is about a California native shrub that widely available and a fine addition to the garden. The plant is the Sticky Monkey Flower (Mimulus aurantiacus, or Diplacus aurantiacus). Its ...

, known as the clown flower or, more popularly, monkey flower, is neon bright with a big, fat smile. It takes a childlike imagination to see the monkey in the middle, but you need only good drainage ...

The monkeyflower, or Mimulus, though possessing a relatively simple genome is able to produce a stunning array of pigmentation patterns. A team of researchers is one step closer to understanding ...

Pollinators often visit several flowers in sequence on plants with large floral displays. This foraging pattern is expected to influence the rate of self-fertilization in self-compatible taxa. To ...

A maximum of eight pots were seeded per family (40 per extended family) on 9 March 2001 in the University of Kansas greenhouses. As some families were short of seed, the total number of pots was ...

Scientists who study monkeyflowers sometimes feel as though the plants are looking back at them. The blooms are said to resemble the faces of playful monkeys—hence the name—complete with a speckled ...