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| Scientific Name: | Mimulus prostratus | |
Status: | Native to South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. | |
Plant Description: | Prostrate annual or perennial herb; younger stems hairy, rooting at the nodes and forming mats. The leaves 2-6 mm long, obovate to elliptic with an acute apex, a rounded base and non-stalked. Flowers arise singly from the leaf axils and stalked. Flowers are blue or pink with a yellow tube 6-15 mm long and a yellow centre. | |
Habitat: | Grows on damp saline land in northern and north-west Victoria. | |
Comments: | Similar to the non-hairy Creeping Monkey-flower (Mimulus repens). | |