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coastal monkey-flower, tooth-leaved monkey-flower

Habit Rhizomatous perennials, occasionally rooting at nodes nearest base; stems usually 50-120 cm, erect or decumbent basally, branched, commonly hollow, densely hirsute to soft-hirtellous to long-hairy, hairs often crinkly, glandular or not, or sometimes villous-glandular without hirtellous hairs. Perennial from well-developed, shallow rhizomes, the stems ascending or loosely erect, 1-4 dm. tall, the herbage with stiff, white hairs.
Leaves

Leaves basal and cauline, basal leaves generally not persistent;

petioles 10-80 mm, becoming reduced distally;

blade ovate to broadly elliptic, 25-60 mm long and 20-40 cm broad, palmate or nearly pinnate venation with 5-7 veins, base truncate to nearly cruneate to nearly cordate, margins crenulate to toothed, occasionally sublyrate near base, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces of distalmost leaves hairy as stems.

Leaves opposite, serrate, pinnately veined, but the principle lateral veins arising below the middle;

leaf blades lance-elliptic to ovate, acute, the lower short-petiolate, the upper sessile, 2-7 cm. long and 1-3.5 cm. wide.

Flowers

Inflorescence racemose, bracteate, flowers 8-26; fruiting pedicels 10-35 mm, hairy as stems;

calyx straight-erect or nodding at 45-100 degrees, ovate to bell-shaped, inflated, compressed along sagittal plane, 15-22 mm, hairy as stems, throat closing;

corollas yellow with red spots inside, symmetric bilaterally, bilabiate;

tube-throat widely funnel-shaped, 16-24 mm, protruding 10-15 mm beyond calyx margin, limb widely expanded;

styles hirtellous;

anthers not protruding, glabrous.

Flowers few, solitary in the leaf axils, on long pedicels;

calyx 8-16 mm. long, 5-angled with spreading hairs along the ribs, the 5 teeth acute, 2-5 mm. long;

corolla 2.5-4 cm. long, bilabiate, yellow, the long, strongly-flaring throat often red-dotted, the 5 well-developed lobes sometimes washed with reddish-purple;

stamens 4.

Fruit(s)

Capsules 8-12 mm, included.

Capsule.

Erythranthe grandis

Erythranthe dentata

Flowering time May-August May-September
Habitat Coastal areas including bluffs, dunes, wet cliff faces, marshes, ditches, lake and pond margins, and stream banks. Stream banks and other moist places to wet places from the lowlands to middle elevations in the mountains.
Distribution
Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington; Washington to California.
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Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington; southwestern British Columbia to northern California.
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Origin Native Native
Conservation status Not of concern 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. 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. breweri, E. caespitosa, E. cardinalis, E. decora, 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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