Erythranthe primuloides |
Erythranthe dentata |
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primrose monkey-flower |
coastal monkey-flower, tooth-leaved monkey-flower |
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Habit | Mat-forming perennial from long, thin rhizomes, the stem lax, up to 6 cm. long. | Perennial from well-developed, shallow rhizomes, the stems ascending or loosely erect, 1-4 dm. tall, the herbage with stiff, white hairs. |
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 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 | 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. |
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 | Capsule. |
Capsule. |
Erythranthe primuloides |
Erythranthe dentata |
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Flowering time | June-August | May-September |
Habitat | Wet meadows and boggy areas at middle to high elevations in the mountains. | Stream banks and other moist places to wet places from the lowlands to middle 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 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 |
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