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Diplacus bigelovii, the Bigelow’s Monkeyflower, blooming today in Borrego Palm Canyon #nativeplants 🌿
Magenta Monkeyflowers with yellow throats
February 23, 2026 at 10:27 PM
frwildflowers.bsky.social
Erythranthe minor, our Colorado Monkeyflower #nativeplants 🌿
Yellow monkeyflowers
July 31, 2026 at 10:31 PM
joansgarden.bsky.social
Mimulus lewisii (Pink Monkeyflower) has long been a favorite of mine since I used to see it growing by the road in an ice cold trickling stream headed for Echo Lake in the Sierra Nevada. I have a cold well water cascade in my garden so I thought I'd give it a try. It's happy, me too. 🌱🌿
A few pink monkeyflowers growing amid a patch of yellow monkeyflowers. #gardening A patch of pink monkeyflowers growing amongst the reedy stems of iris, and over a granite rock, with yellow monkeyflowers growing behind.
January 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
kerrieneet.bsky.social
“Ferns flow down canyon walls,
While monkeyflowers crowd hallowed halls”

#BlueSkyArtShow #Green #photography #wildplaces #grandcanyon #nationalparks #backpacking #poetry
“Ferns flow down canyon walls, While monkeyflowers crowd hallowed halls” #BlueSkyArtShow #Green #photography #wildplaces #grandcanyon #nationalparks #backpacking #poetry
May 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
traceytaylor.bsky.social
🌱Today’s flower/plant photo is a mixture of California Poppies, Sweet William and Mimulus (aka Monkeyflowers.
Photo depicts a mixture of bright orange and light yellow coloured California Poppies with blueish green leaves, dark pink colored Sweet William and deep reddish pink Mimulus (aka Monkeyflowers).
January 22, 2026 at 5:43 PM
frwildflowers.bsky.social
Five years ago today 🌿

Diplacus bigelovii, our Bigelow's Monkeyflower, blooming on the Borrego Palm Canyon Nature Trail #nativeplants
Magenta Monkeyflowers with yellow stripes in their throats
February 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
henryarenas.bsky.social
"How two hybridizing monkeyflowers resist phenotypic homogenization"

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Slide with the title and authors list of a manuscript along with illustrations of the monkeyflowers Mimulus guttatus (left) and Mimulus glaucescens (right). In the background, a Manhattan plot with outlier loci and QTL locations. Title: Maintenance of phenotypic divergence in two sympatric monkeyflowers with weak reproductive isolation Authors: Henry Arenas-Castro, Cage Cochran, Quinn Evans, Hongfei Chen, Jenn M. Coughlan Manuscript: bioRxiv, 10.64898/2026.07.28.741377
August 3, 2026 at 4:48 PM
lawrencelighthill.bsky.social
Posted especially for Mike’s mother. Photo taken on August 5, 2023, in the headwaters of Hayfork Creek, Trinity County, Northern California of what looks like some Musk Monkeyflowers. #wildflowers #monkeyflowers
March 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
davidlowry.bsky.social
Everyone deserves monkeyflowers.
altyellonatpark.org AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · Mar 25
Somebody somewhere
Needs flowers tonight
A perfect bouquet of Monkey Flower with a very blurry background of microbial mats.
March 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nickdesnoyer.bsky.social
Friday Flower 001: Mimulus lewisii 🌸✨

Monkeyflowers are masterpieces of design with nectar-guide spots formed by an activator–inhibitor system of MYB transcription factors. These generate reaction–diffusion patterns across the ventral petal.
August 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
lawrencelighthill.bsky.social
Posted especially for Mike’s mother. Photo taken on September 4, 2022, at Pine Root Saddle, Trinity County, Northern California of some Layne’s Monkeyflowers. This small flowering plant is an annual herb that is endemic to California. #wildflowers #monkeyflowers
March 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
trebuchetday.bsky.social
Monkeyflowers lining the roadway by the hundreds! #bloomscrolling
Bright pink Monkeyflowers with yellow throats lining the gravel side of a road.
May 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
lawrencelighthill.bsky.social
Posted especially for Mike’s mom. Photo taken on July 8, 2023, #TrinityCounty, #NorthernCalifornia of some little Monkeyflowers. There are many different types of monkeyflowers in the area, and for me, they all stand out. #wildflowers #photography #nature
January 4, 2026 at 4:38 PM
mariannedenton.bsky.social
Never underestimate the power of a roadside ditch.
Tall yellow monkeyflowers with smaller purple flowers in a ditch next to a road. There’s a conifer forest in the background and a bit of blue sky
June 27, 2026 at 8:32 PM
watchinthesky.bsky.social
Monkeyflowers for the win!

Red Bush monkeyflowers in the yard today. 🌿
January 23, 2026 at 5:48 PM
seemasheth.bsky.social
Yesterday was the last day of data collection for our scarlet monkeyflower project involving a resurrection study in 3 latitudinally arrayed common gardens. With tons of support from family, friends, and colleagues along the way, the literal seeds of this project developed in 2010.
Photo of several people crouching to collect data in an experimental garden of scarlet monkeyflowers Photo of many scarlet monkeyflowers growing in an experimental garden Photo of a hummingbird perched on a faded pink pin flag, with several blooming scarlet monkeyflowers all around, and a blue pin flag and environmental data logger visible in the background
August 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
darthmydinsky.bsky.social
The wonderful variability of monkeyflowers. #californianativeplants #gardening #plantsky
April 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
watchinthesky.bsky.social
In case anyone needs some #bloomscolling , I’ll start with some #nativeplants - December blooms

Red Bush monkeyflowers
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After rains almost a month ago, a native plant is getting an early start on blooming. Common name is monkeyflower, it has red flowers.
December 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
madisonplunkert.bsky.social
See our new paper examining how monkeyflowers handle salt spray landing on their leaves! Salt spray lands on plant leaves in coastal habitats around the world, yet we know little about how plants survive this stress.
botsocamerica.bsky.social Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Aug 18
Foliar salt spray exclusion & tissue tolerance underlie local adaptation to oceanic salt spray

New #AJB research by @madisonplunkert.bsky.social, @pcdurant.bsky.social, @davidlowry.bsky.social & Katherine Egeler

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #monkeyflower #Mimulus
The coastal perennial ecotype of Mimulus guttatus DC. (syn. Erythranthe guttata DC.) growing on a cliff at Montara State Beach, Montara, California, USA, with oceanic salt spray damage on the leaf margin. Coastal M. guttatus has delayed flowering, which contributes to a salt spray escape strategy by reducing the amount of salt spray reaching these plants. Still, some salt spray contacts the plant, so later-acting strategies that keep sodium from entering the leaves and prevent cell damage are also key for local adaptation to coastal habitat. (Credit: David Lowry)
August 19, 2026 at 12:19 AM
lawrencelighthill.bsky.social
Posted especially for Mike’s mom. Photo taken on August 5, 2023, #TrinityCounty, #NorthernCalifornia of some Monkeyflowers. #wildflowers #photography #nature
January 9, 2026 at 3:19 PM
chrishouston.bsky.social
One of my white Monkeyflowers is really going all out right now. 🌱
#nativeplants #californianativeplants
A green shrub with plentiful white flowers White flowers with yellow centers
April 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
direbecca.bsky.social
Seep Monkeyflower blooming at Bouverie Preserve last week.💚

Plant info. here...
calscape.org/Erythranthe-...

#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat #Wildflowers #Bloomscrolling 📷🌱
Two yellow monkeyflowers with red spots, blooming atop a tall stem along the edge of a creek.
April 27, 2026 at 1:29 AM
monicakeane.bsky.social
School native garden is coming along nicely 🌱 #CaliforniaNativePlants
Mixed bed with monkeyflowers, buckwheat and penstemons Pitcher sage with lavender flowers Orange monkeyflowers Blue penstemons
May 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
lawrencelighthill.bsky.social
Posted especially for Mike’s mother. Photo taken on May 3, 2025, during my hike last Saturday. On that outing, I had a feeling I was being watched. #wildflowers #photography #nature #monkeyflowers
May 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
henryarenas.bsky.social
After growing thousands of them in the greenhouse, I finally could meet my study system in the wild, thanks #PEQG26!

Come to my talk tomorrow at 11:00 am to learn how two sympatric monkeyflowers with weak reproductive isolation maintain their phenotypic differentiation
An open flower and some floral buds of yellow monkeyflower Assemble of flowers on an Asilomar beach dune, including yellow monkeyflowers
June 11, 2026 at 10:44 PM