Erythranthe primuloides |
Erythranthe caespitosa |
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primrose monkey-flower |
large mountain monkey-flower |
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Habit | Mat-forming perennial from long, thin rhizomes, the stem lax, up to 6 cm. long. | Rhizomatous perennials, rooting at nodes nearest the base, occasionally producing runners with creeping form and small leaves, forming colonies of mats, rhizomes threadlike; stems 3-10 cm, usually prostrate or with some curving upward distally, usually massed, round or somewhat flat, branching, may be glabrous or slightly hirtellous or with stalked glands. |
Leaves | Leaves opposite, crowded near the ground, short-hairy abaxially (underside), viscid to glabrous adaxially (upperside); leaves oblanceolate, sessile, nearly entire, 3-nerved from the base, 7-25 mm. long and 3-11 mm. wide. |
Leaves both basal and cauline; petiolate, proximal petioles 2-5 mm, becoming sessile distally; blade commonly purplish beneath, orbicular to ovate to narrowly elliptic, leaves nearest base somewhat lyrate, 3-12 mm and becoming larger farther from base, palmate venation with 3 veins, base wedge-shaped, margins entire to barely finely toothed, apex obtuse, somewhat puberulent above and beneath, hairs minute and stipitate-glandular. |
Flowers | Flowers solitary on slender pedicels up to 10 cm. long arising from the leaf clusters; calyx narrow, 4-8 mm. long, mostly glabrous, the 5 teeth short, equal; corolla yellow, often dotted with maroon, 1-2 cm. long, scarcely bilabiate, the 5 lobes spreading, shallowly notched, the throat somewhat flaring; stamens 4. |
Axillary flowers 1-3, from nodes farthest from base, usually solitary; fruiting pedicels generally 10-30 mm, somewhat villous with short gland-tipped hairs, occasionally hirtellous; calyx broadly bell-shaped, inflated, compressed along sagittal plane, 7-15 mm, glabrous or hirtellous or stipitate-glandular, throat closing, lobe pair nearest base curving upwards, other lobes 3-5 mm, prominently protruding; corollas yellow with dark red spots, symmetric bilaterally, bilabiate; tube-throat widely funnel-shaped to nearly cylindric, 15-18 mm, protruding beyond calyx margin; lower limb deflexed and spreading, upper limb curving upward, palate partially closed; styles slightly hirtellous; anthers not protruding, glabrous. |
Fruit(s) | Capsule. |
Capsules 4-5 mm, included. |
Erythranthe primuloides |
Erythranthe caespitosa |
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Flowering time | June-August | July-September |
Habitat | Wet meadows and boggy areas at middle to high elevations in the mountains. | Wet meadows and wet, rocky slopes at high elevations in the mountains. |
Distribution | Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Montana, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico.
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Occurring in the Olympics and Cascades mountains of Washington; British Columbia south to Oregon, east to Idaho.
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Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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