These lively flowers are found around mountain springs. They can be used as a preservative and their flowers eaten for a healthy liver. When used for the latter, monkey flower is particularly beneficial for people who are sluggish – or not mentally alert.
In the Crow Tobacco Ceremony monkey flower is mixed with moss and chokecherry flowers to form a compost for the tobacco seeds. Grant Bulltail sings one of the Crow songs about this plant, known to them as baauhpàshiile. The plant blooms at the same time the tobacco plant does and is kept in a sacred bundle.
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