The leaves are often, but not always, paired. Finally, the seed capsule is usually flattened and somewhat heart-shaped. Mimulus or monkey-flower is a popular annual in our gardens. Our species, M. guttatus is relatively rare and usually restricted to wet ditches. It has yellow, funnel-like flowers and sticky foliage.
Botanists debate whether it is native to the island or introduced.
Chelone glabra or turtlehead is a well distributed plants of wet ditches, streams and pond margins. The plants are stiffly upright and may reach a meter in height. The narrow, toothed leaves are produced in pairs and the swollen, snapdragon-like flowers are set in a tight cluster at the tip of the stems. They are creamy-white and pleasantly fragrant Scrophularia nodosa commonly called figwort or pigweed, is a rank, roadside weed which is becoming increasingly more common along the east side of the Avalon Peninsula. The tall, upright plants again produce toothed leaves in pairs.