Scientific Name

Diplacus longiflorus

Part Sun

Part Shade

Moderate

Max. Height × Width

2-3 × 2-3

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Price & Availability


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Not just any Monkeyflower, Diplacus longiflorus is our Monkeyflower.

Eschewing the fancy palettes of technologically produced hybridization, our local species’ fleshy leaves and classic, cantaloupe-colored trumpet flowers in late spring and early summer are proudly prosaic. Southern Bush Monkeyflower prefers morning sun and a little afternoon shade. It can also thrive and flower profusely in the dappled light of a larger, neighboring shrub or even an oak understory.

Inland, we’ve found that Southern Bush Monkeyflower benefits from periodic, deep watering in the summer despite its semi-dormancy, and that without some supplemental irrigation, its chances of making it through to the fall decrease, even once established. Fast-growing but relatively short-lived, our Southern Bush Monkeyflower comes in 4” pots, perfect for quickly filling in those little part-sun gaps in your garden with a splash of color.

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Bitter Gooseberry

Ribes amarum

flowers

Blue Dicks

Dipterostemon (Dichelostemma) capitatus

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Blue Elderberry

Sambucus nigra ssp. caerulea

Blue Wildrye

Elymus glaucus

Branching Phacelia

Phacelia ramosissima

Brickell Bush

Brickellia californica

California Aster

Corethrogyne filaginifolia

California Aster

Corethrogyne filaginifolia

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California Four O’Clock

Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia

California Fuchsia

Epilobium canum ssp. canum

California Prickly Phlox

Linanthus californicus

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Canyon Dudleya

Dudleya cymosa

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Cardinal Catchfly

Silene laciniata

Caterpillar Phacelia

Phacelia cicutaria

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Coast Live Oak

Quercus agrifolia

Coast Prickly Pear

Opuntia littoralis

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Coffeeberry

Frangula californica

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Fiesta Flower

Pholistoma auritum

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Fuchsiaflower Gooseberry

Ribes speciosum

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Hollyleaf Redberry

Rhamnus ilicifolia

Longstem Buckwheat

Eriogonum elongatum

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Mountain Mahogany

Cercocarpus betuloides

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Poison Oak

Toxicodendron diversilobum

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Punch Bowl Godetia

Clarkia bottae

Rooreh

Claytonia perfoliata

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Round Leafed Boykinia

Boykinia rotundifolia

Sacred Datura

Datura wrightii

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Santa Barbara Honeysuckle

Lonicera subspicata var. denudata

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Saw-Toothed Goldenbush

Hazardia squarrosa var. grindelioides

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Scarlet Larkspur

Delphinium cardinale

Silver Puffs

Uropappus lindleyi

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Soap Plant

Chloroglaum pomeridianum

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Southern California Black Walnut

Juglans californica

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Spotted Humboldt’s Lily

Lilium humboldtii ssp. ocellatum

Sunflower

Helianthus annuus

Threadleaf Ragwort

Senecio flaccidus

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Toyon

Heteromeles arbutifolia

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Western Columbine

Aquilegia formosa

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Western Wallflower

Erysimum capitatum

Wild Heliotrope