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common monkey-flower

Erythranthe guttata · Phrymaceae · also called Yellow Monkey-Flower · Wikipedia

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Form
groundcover
Rated in
Fremont County, Wyoming
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Evidence regions
Fremont County, Wyoming
Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source
  • Fremont County Firewise Plant List · Official scoped edition
    • Fremont County (WY footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2011-02-25

      The source identifies itself as the Fremont County Firewise Plant List. FireApproved publishes its 92 exact source owners as Fremont County regional context. No methodology, current county endorsement, statewide Wyoming scope, or site-specific suitability is inferred.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

Native range
Current cited native range in AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, NE, NM, NV, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WY.
Introduced / established
7 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

How to read this page

The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.

Native and introduced range evidence

These are exact U.S. botanical-area records from the cited range source. Native and introduced describe biogeographic relationship, not fire performance or planting approval. Doubtful and extinct rows stay visible but do not count as current presence.

Current native

16

exact source areas

Current introduced

7

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

16 native source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04
  • Aleutian Is. (AK)
  • Alaska (AK)
  • Arizona (AZ)
  • California (CA)
  • Colorado (CO)
  • Idaho (ID)
  • Montana (MT)
  • Nebraska (NE)
  • New Mexico (NM)
  • Nevada (NV)
  • Oregon (OR)
  • South Dakota (SD)
  • Texas (TX)
  • Utah (UT)
  • Washington (WA)
  • Wyoming (WY)
7 introduced source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04
  • Connecticut (CT)
  • Delaware (DE)
  • Michigan (MI)
  • New York (NY)
  • Pennsylvania (PA)
  • Vermont (VT)
  • West Virginia (WV)

The lossless worldwide derivative is retained once in the research corpus; object pages repeat only exact U.S. areas needed by the local lens. The JSON twin carries the same page assertions.

The evidence

Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself (a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.

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Corroboration (1 rows from 1 source)
  • Fremont County Firewise Plant List — Fremont County Firewise · web page (server last-modified 2011-02-25) · original source Corroboration Compilation lineage: unknown

    “Fremont County Firewise Plant List — Mimulus guttatus — Yellow Monkey-Flower”

    Listed in the source's Ground Covers section; the page describes its listed Firewise plants as generally low-growing, low-debris, and relatively moist.

Fire-resistant groundcovers instead

Last verified 2026-08-25. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Erythranthe guttata (Yellow Monkey-Flower). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/erythranthe-guttata/. Last verified 2026-08-25.