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Monardella macrantha 'Marian Sampson' is an intensely aromatic perennial from the mountains of California, it forms low mounds of semi-evergreen leaves.  Exotic-looking clusters of scarlet trumpets appear just above  the foliage late spring and through summer.  It accepts many types of soil, but it performs best in dappled shade, out of the heat of the sun.  It grows 3 to 6 inches tall and 8 to 10 inches wide.  Zones 5b-9.