General:
Perennial herb from a well-developed, creeping rhizome, slimy and sticky-white-hairy throughout, often musk-scented; stems decumbent to creeping, rooting at the lower nodes, 10-70 cm long, freely branched.
Leaves:
Opposite, egg-shaped, short-stalked becoming nearly unstalked upward, 1-7 cm long, remotely and sometimes vaguely coarse-toothed, pinnately veined, reduced in the inflorescence.
Flowers:
Inflorescence a loose, terminal raceme of few to several, long-stalked flowers in the axils of the upper leaves, the stalks slender, 0.5-5 cm long; corollas tubular-cylindric, yellow often with red stripes or dots in the short throat, 1.5-3 cm long, weakly 2-lipped, subequally 5-lobed, the lower lip bearded along ridges at the throat; calyces bell-shaped, slimy-hairy especially on the ribs, 6-13 mm long , 5-toothed, the upper tooth slightly larger than the others; stamens 4.
Fruits:
Capsules, egg-shaped, pointy-tipped, 4-9 mm long; seeds numerous, 0.2-0.3 mm long.
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
Site Information |
Value / Class |
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Avg |
Min |
Max |
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Elevation
(metres) |
469 | 9 | 1620 |
Slope
Gradient (%) |
5 | 0 | 27 |
Aspect (degrees) |
216 | 45 | 315 |
Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
6 | 4 | 8 |
Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
D | ||
#
of field plots species was recorded in: |
40 | ||
Modal
BEC Zone Class |
CWH | ||
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
CDF(2), CWH(29), ESSF(2), ICH(3) | ||
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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