Erythranthe patula |
Erythranthe cardinalis |
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stalk-leaved monkey-flower |
scarlet monkey-flower |
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Habit | Annuals with fibrous roots or a filiform-taproot; stems usually 5-15 cm, erect to ascending, straight or sharply bent at nodes, usually unbranched, covered with stalked glands, gland-tipped hairs 0.2-0.5 mm. | Rhizomatous perennials; stems 25-75 cm, usually erect or curving upward, branched, somewhat glandular-villous or becoming glabrous. |
Leaves | Leaves cauline, basal ones not persistent; petioles 8-25 mm; blade deltate or somewhat ovate to lanceolate, approximately 4-12 mm long and 3-10 mm broad, palmate venation with 3 veins, base rounded to cuneate-truncate, margins usually finely toothed, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces glabrous as stems. |
Leaves typically cauline; sessile; blade ovate to elliptic to obovate, 20-90 mm long and 10-38 mm broad, palmate venation, base acuminate and nearly clasping, margins irregularly toothed, apex acute, surfaces hairy as stems. |
Flowers | Axillary flowers 1-10, emerging from nodes throughout; fruiting pedicels 10-25 mm, glandular as stems; calyx tubular, barely or not inflated, 5-6 mm, margins with distinct teeth or lobes, slightly stipitate-glandular to sparsely hirtellous, lobes pronounced, erect; corollas yellow, lower limb commonly with some red or brownish dots, symmetric radially or bilaterally, regular or weakly bilabiate; tube-throat funnel-shaped, 7-8 mm, protruding beyond calyx margin; lobes oblong, apex rounded to truncate; styles glabrous; anthers not protruding, glabrous. |
Axillary flowers 2-12, emerging from leaf axes at mid- to ends of stem; fruiting pedicels generally 30-90 mm; calyx cylindric to nearly bell-shaped, not inflated, 17-28 mm, hairy or bristly-hairy, lobes 4-7 mm, ovate to nearly deltate, apex attenuate-acute; corollas red to orangish red or rarely yellow, throat yellowish with red stripes, palate red, yellow-villous and not spotted or striped, symmetric bilaterally, distinctly bilabiate; tube-throat funnel-shaped, generally 20-30 mm, protruding beyond calyx margin; throat open; styles glabrous; anthers protruding, white-hairy, thecae spreading. |
Fruits | Capsules 4-6 mm, included. |
Capsules 10-16 mm, included. |
Erythranthe patula |
Erythranthe cardinalis |
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Flowering time | May-July | May-August |
Habitat | Vernally moist areas, seeps, and stream banks from the lowlands to the middle elevations. | Streambanks, where escaped from cultivation. |
Distribution | Occurring east of the Cascades crest in southeastern Washington; southeast Washington to adjacent northeast Oregon and adjacent west-central Idaho.
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Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Washington to California, east to the southern Rocky Mountains.
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Origin | Native | Introduced |
Conservation status | Threatened in Washington (WANHP) | Not of concern |
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