Monardella linoides - Flaxleaf mountainbalm

Flaxleaf mountainbalm (Monardella linoides var. stricta) is a mounding, lemon-scented perennial of gravelly mountain soils in California, shaded by Jeffrey pine, Ceanothus, and Amelanchier, with pink flowers that attract many butterflies.¹ It grows 0.1-0.2 m tall and 0.2-1 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 5¹
• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Semi-shade¹

Type

• Perennial

Functions

• Flammable²
• Attracting beneficial insects¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.1-0.2
Diameter (m)	0.2-1

Footnotes

1. Monardella linoides var. stricta, Flaxleaf mountainbalm | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time 15 seconds ↩