HYBRID MONKEYFLOWER
Mimulus × robertsii
Monkeyflower Family [Phrymaceae] 
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Monkeyflower Family [Phrymaceae]
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| 30th June 2012, under Thorpe Cloud, Dovedale, Derbys. | Photo: © Mel Hardy |
| A stream of Hybrid Monkeyflower. |
| 23 Aug 2007, Dubbs Beck, Moor Howe, Windermere. | Photo: © RWD |
| Always grows in shallow wettish places. |
| 23 Aug 2007, Dubbs Beck, Moor Howe, Windermere. | Photo: © RWD |
| Spreads readily. |
| 23 Aug 2007, Dubbs Beck, Moor Howe, Windermere. | Photo: © RWD |
Like Blood-Drop Emlets, it has reddish blotches on the five lobes of the corolla. |
| 23 Aug 2007, Dubbs Beck, Moor Howe, Windermere. | Photo: © RWD |
| It is trumpet, or euphonium-shaped. |
| 23 Aug 2007, Dubbs Beck, Moor Howe, Windermere. | Photo: © RWD |
| The blotches on the lobes are variable in colour, and can be orange-red, as here. |
| 30th June 2012, under Thorpe Cloud, Dovedale, Derbys. | Photo: © Mel Hardy |
The blotches can instead be dark red to purplish-brown whereas those of Blood-Drop Emletsare only reddish. |
| 23 Aug 2007, Dubbs Beck, Moor Howe, Windermere. | Photo: © RWD |
| Smaller spots and blotches in the throat of the flower. |
| 23 Aug 2007, Dubbs Beck, Moor Howe, Windermere. | Photo: © RWD |
| Throat is roughly open (rather than closed off) and the plant is usually sterile, spreading vegetatively. |
| 23 Aug 2007, Dubbs Beck, Moor Howe, Windermere. | Photo: © RWD |
| The throat may, or may not, be hairy. |
| 30th June 2012, under Thorpe Cloud, Dovedale, Derbys. | Photo: © Mel Hardy |
| These specimens have little or no hairs in the throat. |
| 23 Aug 2007, Dubbs Beck, Moor Howe, Windermere. | Photo: © RWD |
| Sepal tube has teeth, as may some of the leaves. |
| 23 Aug 2007, Dubbs Beck, Moor Howe, Windermere. | Photo: © RWD |
| 23 Aug 2007, Dubbs Beck, Moor Howe, Windermere. | Photo: © RWD |
| A young plant. |
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Not to be confused with : Coppery Monkeyflower (Mimulus × bernteii), which it most closely resembles, but that has a copper-coloured corolla and is much less abundant. Monkeyflowers are complicated, with numerous hybrids abounding:
Hybrid Monkeyflower is often mistakenly identified as
There is another double-hybrid called Mimulus cupreus × guttatus × luteus, this time between Monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus) and Blood-Drop Emlets (Mimulus luteus) plus Mimulus cupreus (which seems to lack a common name). No relation to : Monkey Orchid [a plant with similar name from a differing family].
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Monkeyflower Family [Phrymaceae]
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