Erythranthe decora |
Erythranthe moschata |
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sharp-leaved monkey-flower, showy monkey-flower |
musk-flower, musk-plant |
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Habit | Rhizomatous perennials, occasionally producing many long runners from nodes near base; stems 20-100 cm, erect, not branched, ends of stems densely pubescent with minute and somewhat rigid hairs. | Perennial from well-developed rhizomes, the lax stems 0.5-7 dm. long, often freely branching; herbage viscid-villous with flattened, shining white hairs, usually slimy, often musk-scented. |
Leaves | Leaves mostly cauline, basal leaves generally not persistent; petioles 8-25 mm near base, 3-5 mm mid-stem, sessile distally; blade ovate-triangular to ovate-lanceolate, typically 20-50 mm long and 10-30 mm broad, palmate venation with 5-7 veins, base rounded to truncate to shallowly cuneate, margins sharply toothed, apex acute, surfaces occasionally becoming glabrous, distalmost surfaces hairy as stems. |
Leaves opposite, remotely toothed, pinnately veined, sessile or short-petiolate, the blade ovate to elliptic-ovate, 1-8 cm. long and 7-35 mm. wide. |
Flowers | Axillary flowers generally 2-7, emerging from nodes at ends of stems; fruiting pedicels 18-35 mm, distalmost pedicels hairy as stems with hairs often barely deflexed; calyx green with occasional red spots, ovoid, inflated, compressed across sagittal plane, 15-19 mm, hairy as stems, throat closing, lobe margins villous; corollas yellow, throat commonly red-spotted, symmetric bilaterally, bilabiate; tube-throat widely funnel-shaped, 18-26 mm, protruding 10-15 mm beyond calyx margin; limb expanded 22-30 mm; styles prominently hirsute to villous; anthers not protruding, glabrous. |
Flowers solitary in the leaf axils on long pedicels; calyx 7-13 mm. long, viscid-villous, especially on the 5 rib angles, the 5 teeth pointed, 2-4 mm. long, the upper tooth a little larger than the others; corolla 1.5-3 cm. long, yellow, often with some dark lines or dots, only slightly bilabiate, the tube nearly cylindrical; stamens 4. |
Fruit(s) | Capsules 8-10 mm, included. |
Capsule. |
Erythranthe decora |
Erythranthe moschata |
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Flowering time | May-August | May-August |
Habitat | Moist to wet open areas from the lowlands to middle elevations in the mountains. | Stream banks, moist meadows and seeps, low to middle elevations in the mountains. |
Distribution | Occurring chiefly west of the Cascades crest in Washington; southern British Columbia to southwestern Oregon, also in northern Idaho.
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Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to the Rocky Mountains; also in eastern North America.
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Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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