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Brewer's monkey-flower

Habit Slender annual, the stem simple or sparingly branched, up to 15 cm. tall, purplish tinged and covered with stalked glands.
Leaves

Leaves opposite, linear to linear-oblanceolate, 1-2 cm. long and 1-4 mm. wide.

Flowers

Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, the pedicels usually longer than the calyx;

calyx 5-lobed, 5-angled, the lobes short with prominent mid-veins;

corolla light purple to nearly red, slightly bilabiate, 5-10 mm. long and up to 2 mm. wide;

stamens 4.

Fruit

Capsule.

Erythranthe geniculata

Erythranthe breweri

Flowering time June-August
Habitat Dry to moist open woods and meadows from middle elevations in the mountains to the subalpine.
Distribution
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Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Montana, Wyoming, and Utah.
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Origin Native
Conservation status Not of concern
Sibling taxa
E. alsinoides, E. ampliata, E. arvensis, E. breviflora, E. breweri, E. caespitosa, E. cardinalis, E. decora, E. dentata, E. floribunda, E. grandis, E. guttata, E. inflatula, E. jungermannioides, E. lewisii, E. microphylla, E. moschata, E. nasuta, E. patula, E. primuloides, E. ptilota, E. pulsiferae, E. scouleri, E. suksdorfii, E. washingtonensis
E. alsinoides, E. ampliata, E. arvensis, E. breviflora, E. caespitosa, E. cardinalis, E. decora, E. dentata, E. floribunda, E. grandis, E. guttata, E. inflatula, E. jungermannioides, E. lewisii, E. microphylla, E. moschata, E. nasuta, E. patula, E. primuloides, E. ptilota, E. pulsiferae, E. scouleri, E. suksdorfii, E. washingtonensis
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