Latin name: Monardella nana A. Gray
  Pronunciation: mon-ar-DEL-la NAN-a

  Common name: Little monardella
  Family: Lamiaceae (Mint)
  Habitat: Montane chaparral, woodland, forest, dry
  desert-like slopes, 2500'–8000', Peninsular Range

  Blooming period: May to August
  Click for Latin name derivations:  1) Monardella
  2) nana
  NOTE: This is the taxon that was formerly named
  Monardella nana ssp. nana, habitat montane forest,
  chaparral, 3500'-6000', Peninsular Range, Laguna
  and Cuyamaca Mts, now considered to be M. nana
  in the Jepson Manual 2nd Ed.
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