Satureja mimuloides - Monkeyflower savory

Monkeyflower savory (Satureja mimuloides) is a rhizome-spreading perennial of California chaparral and Douglas fir forest, growing in wet spots in full sun, with fragrant deep red-orange flowers that smell of mild spearmint.¹ It grows 1 m tall and 1-2 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Full sun¹
• Moist soil¹
• Wet soil¹

Outputs

• Human food¹

Type

• Satureja spp. - Savory
• Perennial
• Deciduous

Functions

• Flammable²
• Ground cover¹
• Wildlife habitat¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	1
Diameter (m)	1-2

Footnotes

1. Satureja mimuloides, Monkeyflower Savory | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time 10 seconds ↩