Is this a Mimulus?

[TheOnionMan]

Looks sort of like a looser taller growing Mimulus cupreus, but I'm no Mimulus expert by a long shot:
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http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/141/33607.jpg

[David Nicholson]

Can I distract this thread?

No. Go get your own

[daveyp1970]

Can I distract this thread?

No. Go get your own

how funny

[David Nicholson]

Some forms have greener leaves, this grey is very nice (harvest any seed David). Usually (here) the leaves are partially deciduous which probably makes it reasonably hardy but being grey it might like a glass over it. It grows magnificently in disturbed gravel at the sides of mountian roads in Greece, flowering in summer but no doubt covered with snow in winter. We saw it on the way to a ski field.

It's only just come into flower Lesley but if I get seeds you will get some.

[Roma]

Mark, I think your Mimulus is cardinalis.

[Lesley Cox]

I agree, cardinalis. I thought it was quite funny that Mark wanted to talk about mimulus on what was supposed, originally, to be a mimulus thread. Very distracting.

Thank you David, I'll do the same for you when I can.

[Lvandelft]

Hi David, as the Plant Identification Thread is always an interesting thread, I started to look here after being away some weeks and found your question.
Three weeks ago on our way to Austria we decided to make a stop at Bot. Garden Würzburg, where I saw your plant and made some pictures.
It was growing on a rather hot sunny slope where they grew enormous Acantholimon, Genista, Echinospartium and also Scutellaria orientalis.
Here three pictures for you.

[David Nicholson]

Thank you Luit, hope you had a good holiday. My Scutellaria orientalis won't have that much room to grow!

[Paul T]

Great Scutellaria, David.  Fascinating leaves.  Not at all like what I associate with Scuts, but that might just be my memory. 

[David Nicholson]

Paul, don't know if I shall get seed but if I do I will send you some.

[Brian Ellis]

I have a small plant too and will keep an eye on it for seeds.

[Paul T]

The leaves remind me of some sort of herb or something...... something else we grow in gardens, but not Scuts.  I have mixed success with Scuts here, so sending seed might be a death sentence to the poor little blighters.    I appreciate the sentiment though.