Both the common and genus names refer to the supposed resemblance of the flowers to the simian face. I don’t readily see it but they are fantastic blooms.
Monkey Flower (Mimulus sp.)
"What a thousand acres of Silphiums looked like when they tickled the bellies of the buffalo is a question never again to be answered, and perhaps not even asked." -Aldo Leopold
A Thousand Acres of Silphiums 