Appearance
''Monardella linoides'' is a gray-green perennial herb producing a slender erect stem up to about 50 centimeters in maximum height. The linear to oval leaves are 1 to 4 centimeters long and coated in grayish hairs. The inflorescence is a head of several flowers blooming in a cup of pale whitish or pink-tinged papery bracts 2 or 3 centimeters wide. The flowers are just over a centimeter long and light purple in color.Naming
Subspecies include:⤷ ''Monardella linoides'' ssp. ''anemonoides'' — endemic to the Southern Sierra Nevada.
⤷ ''Monardella linoides'' ssp. ''erecta'' — endemic to the San Gabriel Mountains and San Bernardino Mountains.
⤷ ''Monardella linoides'' ssp. ''linoides''
⤷ ''Monardella linoides'' ssp. ''oblonga'' — endemic to the San Emigdio Mountains and Southern Sierra.
⤷ ''Monardella linoides'' ssp. ''sierrae'' — Narrow leaved monardella, endemic to the Sierra Nevada.
⤷ ''Monardella linoides'' ssp. ''stricta'' — endemic to the San Gabriel Mountains and San Bernardino Mountains.
⤷ ''Monardella linoides'' ssp. ''viminea'' — reclassified as ''Monardella viminea'', a federally listed endangered species.
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