In 2015, the BC Conservation Data Centre changed the name of this taxon from Mimulus tilingiivar. tillingii to Erythranthe tilingii.

General:
Low perennial herb from a creeping rhizome, sometimes also with stolons; stems erect to decumbent at the base, 5-20 cm tall, sometimes branched, smooth or sparsely hairy.

Leaves:
Opposite, short-stalked to unstalked, elliptic to egg- or diamond-shaped, the blades 5-25 mm long, irregularly few-toothed, palmately 3- to 5-veined from the base; leaves not much reduced upward.

Flowers:
Inflorescence of 1 to 3 (5) long-stalked flowers in the axils of the upper leaves, the stalks 1-6 cm long; corollas tubular, broadly funnel-shaped, yellow with maroon markings in the flaring throat, 2-4 cm long, strongly 2-lipped, the lips spreading, the upper lip 2-lobed, the lower 3-lobed, yellow-hairy at the throat; calyces bell-shaped, pale yellow-green with reddish spots, smooth to minutely hairy, 7-15 mm long in flower, to 20 mm and asymmetrically swollen in fruit, 5-toothed, hairy in the notches between the teeth, the upper tooth larger than the others; stamens 4.

Fruits:
Capsules, oblong to oval, rounded at the tip, 5-10 mm long; seeds numerous, about 0.5 mm long.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.

Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Mimulus tilingii var. tilingii Regel
Mimulus corallinus (Greene) A.L. Grant
Mimulus implicatus Greene
Mimulus langsdorffii var. minor (A. Nelson) Cockerell
Mimulus langsdorffii var. tilingii (Regel) Greene
Mimulus lucens Greene
Mimulus minor A. Nelson
Mimulus minusculus Greene
Mimulus veronicifolius Greene