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Creeping Monkey-flower

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Scientific Name:Mimulus repens
Image: Creeping Monkey Flower
Creeping Monkey-flower - plant

Other Common Name:
Maori Musk

Status:
Native to most of Australia. Also in New Zealand.

Plant Description:
Small annual or perennial, non-hairy herb usually growing along the ground from rooting nodes and forming mats. The leaves are generally crowded and small 2-6 mm long, ovate with an acute or obtuse apex and a rounded base on very short stalks. Flowers arise singly from the leaf axils on short stalks. Flowers are blue, purple or pink with a white or yellow tube 5-10 mm long and a raised yellow palate on the lower lip of the corolla. Flowers mainly in spring and autumn. Fruit is a 5 mm long capsule.

Habitat:
Generally occurs on clay soils on flats and drying lakes, sometimes in brackish situations.

RegionSalinity ClassWaterlogging Class
Mallee, Loddon Murray, Central and Northern, Wimmera, Western, GippslandS0, S1, S2W2, W3

Comments:
Similar to the hairy-stemmed Small Monkey-flower (Mimulus prostratus) from northern Victoria.
Creeping monkey-flower has been suspected of causing sheep deaths when young plants were eaten after rain.

Creeping Monkey-flower

Image: Creeping Monkey Flower
Creeping Monkey-flower - plant
Photo: A J Brown
Creeping Monkey-flower plant
Creeping Monkey-flower - trailing stems and leaves
Photo: A J Brown

Creeping Monkey-flower - leaves and flowers
Creeping Monkey-flower - leaves and flowers
Photo: A J Brown

Creeping Monkey-flower - flower
Creeping Monkey-flower - flower
Photo: A J Brown
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