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Scrophulariaceae Family - "Monkey Flower, Monkey Face, Gape Plant"
Mimulus is from the diminuitive of mimus meaning "a buffoon" referring to the grinning face of the corolla. Ringens comes from a word meaning "gaping".
Common to alluvial woods, edges of marshes, in seeps and in wet roadside ditches. Grows to 3 feet with blue / blue-violet flowers blooming from late July through September.
Native Americans and early settlers sometimes used the leaves as an edible green.
