Erythranthe primuloides

Primrose monkeyflower

Family: Phrymaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Primrose monkeyflower is a California native perennial found in northwestern California, the Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, western Transverse Ranges, San Bernardino Mountains, San Jacinto Mountains, and Great Basin in wet meadows, seeps, and streambanks at elevations of 600 to 3,400 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces yellow flowers with distinctive red spots at the base of the lower lip, borne on stiffly erect pedicels 10 to 120 millimeters long. Growing in low mats of distinct rosettes with rhizomes or stolons, the plant forms small bulblets in autumn and reaches heights of 0.5 to 4 centimeters. Its leaves are palmately three-veined, oblong to obovate, 7 to 40 millimeters long, and generally spreading in rosettes that are glabrous to densely long-hairy. The fruit is 6 to 7 millimeters long, complementing the plant's delicate alpine and meadow habitat.

Habitat: Wet meadows, seeps, streambanks

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 600-3400 m

Bioregions: NW, CaR, SN, WTR, SnBr, SnJt, GB

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