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Monardella palmeri is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name Palmer's monardella.

Monardella palmeri
Conservation status
Imperiled  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Lamiaceae
Genus:	Monardella
Species:	M. palmeri
Binomial name
Monardella palmeri A.Gray

Distribution

Monardella palmeri is endemic to California, where it is known only from the Santa Lucia Mountains of the California Coast Ranges in Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties. It grows in local habitat types such as chaparral and forest, often on serpentine soils.

Description

Monardella palmeri is a rhizomatous perennial herb forming a tuft of slender, decumbent purplish stems up to about 30 centimeters long. The leathery lance-shaped leaves are 1 to 2 centimeters long.

The inflorescence is a head of several flowers blooming in a cup of leathery purple bracts roughly 3 centimeters wide. The pinkish purple flowers are up to 2 centimeters long with tips divided into five narrow lobes.

References

External links

• Calflora Database: Monardella palmeri (Palmer's monardella)
• Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of Monardella palmeri^{[permanent dead link]}
• USDA Plants Profile
• Monardella palmeri − Photo gallery

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