Scientific name: Mimulus guttatus DC.
Common name: Monkey-flower
Description
Habit: Perennial, to 80 cm high.
Stems: Erect to semi-erect or spreading, with leafy stolons, leafy, glandular-hairy on upper parts of the plant.
Leaves: Opposite, without stipules, lower leaves short-stalked, undivided, round or broadly oval, toothed.
Flowers: Yellow with red spots, zygomorphic, hermaphrodite, 2.5-4 cm across, in leafy terminal racemes; calyx of 5 sepals fused, tubular, 5-toothed; corolla of 5 petals fused into wide tube and 5 spreading lobes; stamens 4, borne on corolla tube; ovary superior, 2-celled, style 1.
Fruits: A capsule.
Habitat: Streamsides.Distribution: Very rare.
Native status: Not native
Of conservation interest: No