Erythranthe tilingii

Tiling's monkeyflower

Family: Phrymaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Tiling's monkeyflower is a California native perennial found in northwestern California, high Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, western Transverse Ranges, San Bernardino Mountains, San Jacinto Mountains, northern eastern Sierra Nevada, and White and Inyo Mountains in seeps, streambanks, and wet meadows at elevations of 1,400 to 3,400 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces yellow flowers with a long tube-throat 15 to 28 millimeters long, emerging singly in the axils of upper leaves. Growing 2 to 35 centimeters tall with erect to ascending stems that are glabrous or slightly glandular-hairy, it develops from a rhizomatous base. Its leaves are ovate to lanceolate, 5 to 35 millimeters long, with petioles up to 25 millimeters, arranged in pairs at stem nodes. The fruit is 5 to 10 millimeters long, developing in a distinctively asymmetrically swollen calyx with unequal lobes.

Habitat: Seeps, streambanks, wet meadows

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: 1400-3400 m

Bioregions: NW, CaRH, SNH, WTR, SnBr, SnJt, n SNE (Sweetwater Mtns), W&ampI

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