General: Perennial herb from heavy, woody taproot and branched stem-base; stems few to several, 5-30 cm tall, short, stiff appressed-hairy.
Leaves: Numerous, all along the stem, unstalked, linear to oblong or narrowly lanceolate, 2-6 cm long and 2-6 mm wide, entire, alternate, short, stiff appressed-hairy.
Flowers: Well-developed flowers in small clusters in upper leaf axils, the flower stalks bent down somewhat in fruit; corollas bright yellow, 15-35 mm long, fused at base into long (12-30 mm) tube that spreads (10-20 mm wide) at top to 5 ragged-margined lobes, with 5 bulges at the throat; smaller unopened flowers often appear later in the season, in branching clusters lower on the stem.
Fruits: Nutlets usually 4, clustered together, grey, shining, sparingly pitted, 3-3.5 mm long.
Dry grasslands and shrublands in the steppe zone; infrequent in S BC east of the Coast-Cascade Mountains; E to S ON and S to IN, MO, TX, NM, AZ and MX.
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range. (Updated August, 2013)
