The Death Valley monkeyflower (Mimulus rupicola), is a flowering plant in the family Phrymaceae, native to the Mojave Desert of the southwestern United States. It is a perennial herbaceous plant, growing 1-17 cm tall, with oblanceolate leaves 2-6 cm long. It has pinkish flowers, often faint in color, and has a magenta-purple spot on each lobe. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ... Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class: this name is formed by replacing the termination -aceae in the name Magnoliaceae by the termination -opsida (Art 16 of the ICBN). ... Families See text The Order Lamiales is a taxon in the asterid group of dicotyledonous flowering plants. ... Genera See text Phrymaceae Schauer 1847, or the lopseed family, is a small plant family in the order Lamiales. ... Species See text. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Classes Magnoliopsida- Dicots Liliopsida- Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Genera See text Phrymaceae Schauer 1847, or the lopseed family, is a small plant family in the order Lamiales. ... Looking across from Emigrant Pass towards the Kingston Range in the eastern Mojave. ... A Red Valerian, a perennial plant. ... This article is about the plants used in cooking and medicine. ... In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ... Clivia miniata bears bright orange flowers. ...

Although quite rare, it can be found in shaded limestone crevices on steep canyon walls in the mountains bordering Death Valley. Limey shale overlaid by limestone. ... Grand Canyon, Arizona canyon, or gorge, is a valley walled by cliffs. ... Death Valley and Panamint Range Death Valley is a valley in California that is located southeast of the Sierra Nevada range in the Great Basin and the Mojave Desert, comprising much of Death Valley National Park. ...

References

• Jepson Flora Project
• Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Jon Mark Stewart, 1998, pg. 162