STICKY MONKEY FLOWER (Diplacus aurantiacus) has pale orange, trumpet-shaped flowers from late March through early July.  A perennial, it loses its leaves and goes dormant in summer.  Although it appears dead, green leaves will emerge in the spring.  It is a food plant for the larvae of the Variable Checkerspot Butterfly (Euphydryas clalcedona), which is common in the Elfin Forest.  The female butterflies lay eggs on this plant in May and June.  The caterpillars will live on it for 10 months until they metamorphose the following spring.