Diplacus graniticola, the granite-crack monkeyflower, is a species of flowering plant endemic to the Sierra Nevada of California. It is a low-growing annual, 6-15 cm tall, which grows in cracks and crevices on granite rocks from 300 to 2100 meters elevation.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Granite-crack Monkeyflower being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Diplacus constrictus
- Diplacus johnstonii
- Diplacus layneae
- Diplacus thompsonii
- Diplacus fremontii
- Diplacus jepsonii
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Lamiales
- Family
- Phrymaceae
- Genus
- Diplacus
- Species
- Diplacus graniticola
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