Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Erythranthe moschata

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Dinner Plain Vic

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Dinner Plain, Vic

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Tallaganda State Forest south of Braidwood

Common name

Musk monkey-flower

Family

Phrymaceae

Where found

Moist sites in pasture and grassland, roadside ditches, gullies, along streams, and in swamps. Mainly ACT, the mountains to the west, and Kosciuszko National Park. Occasionally on the tablelands and the western edge of the ranges.

Notes

Introduced perennial herb to 0.5 m high, or sprawling. Sticky-hairy, often musk-scented. Leaves opposite each other, 2–6 cm long, 10–35 mm wide, margins toothed, tips pointed to blunt and mucronate. Flowers yellow, tubular, the  tube 15–25 mm long with fine red lines, with 5 lobes, the lobes with a patch of coarse hairs and small brown blotches inside the lower side of the open mouth. Flowers single or rarely paired. Flowering: chiefly November–February.

Was Mimulus moschatus. Family was Scrophulariaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Erythranthe~moschata  (accessed 22 January, 2021)