Sticky Monkey Flower: Growing Tips And Interesting Facts

Thinking of the upcoming spring Erythranthe alsinoides, the Chickweed Monkey Flower, is in the Phrymaceae or Monkey Flower family. It’s a small flower that grows as a sign of spring in wet seepy cliffs from California to British Columbia. This family generally has 5 petals united into a tube, arranged with an upper and lower lip (bilabiate), with 2 petal lobes on top and 3 lobes on the bottom. Here Howie Brounstein and Leah Kays discuss the coloration on the central lobe of the lower lip of the