Mimulus ×hybridus Siebert & Voss

A hybrid, m. guttatus _ m. luteus.

Grown as tall perennials, low rock garden plants and annual bedding or pot plants. Annual bedding plants with large, colourful flowers are available in a range of habit and flower colour cultivars (sometimes mottled) including:

CALYPSO HYBRIDS with flowers crimson, red and gold.

Other species occasionally offered include: M. cardinalis Douglas, Scarlet Monkey Flower, from W America, a perennial with yellow-throated scarlet flowers that have 2 yellow hairy ridges; M. guttatus DC., Common Large Monkey Flower, from N America, an annual with yellow flowers that have 2 red- to brownish-spotted, hairy ridges; M. luteus L., Yellow Monkey Flower, a perennial from Chile, which flowers in summer and has yellow flowers with red or purple spots; and M. ringens L., Allegheny Monkey Flower, from N America, a perennial with violet-blue (rarely pink or white) flowers.

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Scrophulariaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.

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Mimulus ×hybridus 'Andean Nymph'

Flowers pink with petals cream-tipped.

Mimulus ×hybridus 'Highland Orange'

Flowers orange.

Mimulus ×hybridus 'Highland Red'

Flowers dark red.

Mimulus ×hybridus 'Malibu'

Flowers orange.

kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Asteranae
order      Lamiales
family       Phrymaceae
genus        Mimulus L.