General:
Annual herb from fibrous roots; stems erect, 10-50 cm tall, usually unbranched, coarse-hairy below becoming glandular-hairy upward.

Leaves:
Opposite or some of the upper leaves alternate or offset, unstalked, lanceolate, 1-4 cm long, coarsely toothed, distinctly veined, glandular-hairy.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a leafy-bracted, terminal, spike-like cluster of several to many, nearly unstalked flowers; corollas yellow, tubular, 1.5-2 cm long, 2-lipped, the upper lip hood-like, the lower lip 3-lobed; calyces sticky-hairy, tubular, 1-1.5 cm long, 4-toothed, the teeth lanceolate, about as long as the tube; stamens 4, the anthers hairy.

Fruits:
Capsules, lance-cylindric, hairy; seeds numerous, small, smooth.

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