Erythranthe cordata

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Family: Phrymaceae · Type: Annual · Native

Erythranthe cordata is a native California annual in the Phrymaceae family, recognized by distinctive leafy runners from basal nodes and stalked-glandular flower stalks.

Erythranthe cordata is a native annual herb found in seeps, streambanks, and washes at elevations of 800 to 2,400 meters. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces yellow flowers in bracted racemes with 10 to 16 flowers per stem, each with a glandular pedicel up to 45 millimeters long. Growing 12 to 40 centimeters tall with fibrous roots and sometimes developing leafy runners from basal nodes, it has sparsely glandular stems. Its leaves are elliptic to slightly ovate, 15 to 30 millimeters long, with petioles 6 to 20 millimeters in length, becoming abruptly reduced on the upper stem. The fruit is 5 to 7 millimeters long, developing in a calyx that becomes asymmetrically swollen, with the lower lobes curving upward.

Sources: Jepson eFlora

Last updated 2026-10-06

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