Monkeyflowers (<I>Mimulus guttatus</I>) (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)

Monkeyflowers (<I>Mimulus guttatus</I>) (2 of 2)

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To find out why tradeoffs between flower size and flower number are so difficult to detect, researchers conducted an experiment in which they planted more than 1,000 monkeyflowers of the species Mimulus guttatus in a greenhouse at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.

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Photo courtesy of Michael Mucci of the University of Guelph

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