General: Stems erect, solitary, from creeping rhizomes, simple or sometimes branched, not dark-spotted, glabrous, 20-130 cm tall.
Leaves: Leaves opposite, long-stalked, ovate to broadly-lanceolate, apices acute to acuminate, bases rounded to cordate, entire, surfaces glabrous, margins ciliate (cilia to 2 mm), 4-17 (20) mm; petiole 0.5-6 cm.
Flowers: . Inflorescences of solitary, axillary flowers in axils of upper leaves Flowers long-stalked; corollas rotate, 5-lobed, 5-12 mm wide; corolla lobes yellow, sometimes with a reddish base, not streaked or spotted, apices mucronate, margins sometimes slightly erose; calyces green, not streaked, 2.5-9 mm, sometimes stipitate-glandular; calyx lobes lanceolate filaments partly connate, shorter than the corollas; pedicels slender, arched, usually stipitate-glandular, (0.5) 1.5-7 cm. Flowering (Jun) Jul-Sep.
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Moist to wet streambanks, shorelines, meadows, riparian woods, boggy wetlands, and pond edges in the lowland, steppe, and montane zones. Frequent in sc and se BC, locally infrequent in sw BC (Lower Fraser Valley); BC east to NS, south to NM, FL.
