![]() ![]() Ssp pallida, found mostly in California, has white or very pale purple flowers, while the more widespread ssp glauca has darker purple or reddish flowers, and grey-green (glaucous) stems. The corolla contains four stamens and a two-lobed style, all exserted. The upper lip is divided into two lobes, angled upwards, and the lower lip is divided into three lobes, curved backwards. Individual flowers consist of a hairy, purple, five-lobed calyx and a two-lipped corolla. Stems grow generally upwards, branch readily, and usually bear a single, spherical flower cluster, about one inch wide, with a whorl of leafy, green to purple bracts underneath. Flowers: Tiny, light purple to pink, in rounded clusters. Leaf retention: Evergreen but drought-deciduous. Stems and leaves may be light green to dark grey in color (sometimes with purple tints), and they usually have a sparse covering of short hairs. Coyote Mint Description Form: Herbaceous stems growing from a woody base (subshrub). Monardella odoratissima is a variable plant several subspecies are recognized, and specimens from different locations show a range of characteristics, in such aspects as leaf hairiness, leaf edges (entire or serrate), leaf shape, leaf color and bract properties. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.Monardella odoratissima, Ramparts Trail, Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah Monardella villosa (also known as coyote mint, robust coyote mint and San Luis Obispo coyote mint) is a plant in the family Lamiaceae. The villosa subspecies occurs throughout the range, and is the subspecies native to Santa Clara County. Learn to care for and grow coyote mint (Monardella villosa). It is encountered primarily in mountainous settings, but it may have been common in valleys before agriculture and urbanization. The strongly mint-scented evergreen leaves are a treat and give rise to large pink-purple ball-shaped flowers that are darker than is typical for Monardella villosa. Description The coyote mint is widespread north of Santa Barbara County. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Details Monardella villosa 'Russian River' (Coyote Mint) is long-blooming, coloring the garden with flowers for several months beginning in mid-summer. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. ![]() ![]() Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. ![]() Grows up to 12-24 inches tall and 24-36 inches wide. The genus Monardella was named for the Spanish physician and botanist Nicolás Bautista Monardes (1493-1588) who was interested in the medicinal uses of plants. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Coyote Mint was used by Native Americans as a remedy for stomach upset, respiratory conditions, and sore throat. ![]()
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