Erythranthe ptilota

Wing-leaf monkeyflower

Family: Phrymaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Wing-leaf monkeyflower is a California native perennial found in northern California's seeps, streambanks, and shaded coniferous woods at elevations of 0 to 1,900 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces yellow flowers with delicate tubular corollas around 15 to 18 millimeters long. Growing with prostrate or ascending stems 20 to 80 centimeters tall, it spreads with a lax and diffuse habit from a rhizomatous base. Its leaves are oblong to lanceolate, measuring 30 to 70 millimeters long with distinctive pinnate veining and short petioles. The fruit develops as a small capsule 6 to 8 millimeters in length, nestled within slightly hairy calyxes 10 to 12 millimeters long.

Habitat: Seeps, streambanks, shade in coniferous woods

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: 0-1900 m

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