Erythranthe corallina

Coralline monkeyflower

Family: Phrymaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Coralline monkeyflower is a California native perennial herb found in wet mountain habitats across the Sierra Nevada at elevations of 1,400 to 3,000 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces yellow flowers with a tube-throat 13 to 20 millimeters long, typically growing in small racemes of 1 to 6 blossoms. Growing 6 to 35 centimeters tall with a rhizomatous root system, the plant has slightly hairy stems that spread from the base. Its leaves are ovate to broadly ovate, 15 to 45 millimeters long, with crenate edges and a base that ranges from truncate to shallowly heart-shaped. The plant's fruit is 7 to 10 millimeters long, developing in asymmetrically swollen calyces with unequal lobes.

Habitat: Common. Wet places, springs, seeps, meadows, streams, marshy areas

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: 1400-3000 m

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.