Mimulus lewisii

Attractive pink flowers with fuzzy, yellow throats. Native to the Canadian Rocky Mtns, is listed in several wildflower reference books as perennial, but I'm a bit suspicious of this. Was sold to me by a wildflower company as an annual, and I'm thinking they're probably right. Hasn't proven to be perennial for us, and annual-like, it flowers copiously its first year from seed.

Mimulus likes moist soil. If grown in partial shade (as shown above) will take on a decumbent growth habit, grows upright in full sun in our garden.

Hardy to zone 2.

Height to 40 cm, spread 30 cm.  

Glen's score:  7 (higher if it ever proves perennial).