General:
Annual herb; stems erect, 10-40 cm tall, slender, simple or rarely few-branched above, spreading-hairy, often also glandular-hairy above, yellow-green sometimes becoming purple-tinged.

Leaves:
Alternate, unstalked, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 1.5-4 cm long, dark green, short-spreading-hairy, usually entire, sometimes the upper 3-cleft, the upper leaves passing gradually into the wider, 3-lobed bracts of the inflorescence.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a dense, ultimately elongate, prominently bracted, densely glandular-hairy, terminal spike 5-20 cm long, the bracts dark green, glandular-hairy, 10-15 mm long, differing gradually from the leaves, 3-lobed, the 2 lateral lobes small, divergent, about half as long as the narrowly egg-shaped middle lobe; corollas golden-yellow, minutely hairy, 9-15 mm long, exserted from the bracts, tubular, about equally 2-lipped, the upper lip beaked and minutely hooked, the lower lip swollen, pouched, minutely 3-toothed; calyces tubular, 5-8 mm long, green, glandular-hairy, subequally 4-lobed; stamens 4.

Fruits:
Capsules, ellipsoid, 5-7 mm long; seeds 20 to 35, about 1 mm long, with tight-fitting, netted, wrinkled coats.

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

Flower Colour:
Yellow

Blooming Period:
Early Summer

Fruit/Seed characteristics:
Colour: Brown
Present over the Summer

Source:  The USDA