General:
Annual herb from a taproot; stems erect or often reclining to prostrate, spreading stiff-hairy, simple or branched, to 40 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves not persistent; stem leaves irregularly fine-toothed, lanceolate to lance-linear or lance-elliptic, to 5 cm long and about 1 cm wide, alternate.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a coiled cluster; petals orange, fused into a tube 4-8 mm long that spreads (3-5 mm wide) at the top to 5 short lobes; calyx lobes 5, but 2 of them half-fused, with long stiff hairs and a few shorter, softer hairs.

Fruits:
Nutlets 4, clustered together, 1.5-2.5 mm long, egg-shaped, weakly wrinkled or pimply, blackish.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Amsinckia scouleri I.M. Johnst.
Amsinckia spectabilis var. bracteosa (Gray) Boivin
Amsinckia spectabilis var. microcarpa (Greene) Jepson & Hoover
Amsinckia spectabilis var. nicolai (Jepson) I.M. Johnston ex Munz
Amsinckia spectabilis var. spectabilis Fisch. & C. A. Mey. [superfluous autonym]