English: Steamboat monkeyflower; Diplacus ovatus.
Habitat: dry and rocky areas.
TaxonomyDiplacus used to be a separate genus. In 1905 it was fused into Mimulus. In 2012 it was resurrected as a genus due to phylogenetic research and placed in
Phrymaceae.
Subshrubs with woody stems were originally placed in the section Diplacus
BotanyFlower: sessile; parietal placentation.