Monardella purpurea
means little purple Monarda named
for
Nicolas Monardes a Spanish
Renaissance
physician and botanist (whose
" Joyfull newes out of the new-found worlde" made tobacco a household
remedy
throughout Europe)
leaves green or green flushed with purple everything
else
stems,
bracts, calyx lobes, and corolla
purple brachts
modified leaf-like structures that subtend
the
flower head
calyx the hairy ring of fused sepals that envelops
the
flower tube at its base
uncommon on rocky slopes often
serpentine chaparral
woodland,
and montane forests from the Klamath
and Outer North Coast Ranges