General:
Annual, biennial or short-lived perennial herb from a spindly taproot; stems ascending to erect, 10-30 cm tall, 1 to several, simple or more commonly branched, white-hairy typically in lines below the leaf bases, increasingly so upward.

Leaves:
Basal leaves small; stem leaves alternate, stalked, pinnately cleft to lobed, the segments coarsely toothed, the stalks wing-margined; leaves gradually reduced upward.

Flowers:
Inflorescence compact to elongate, of few to several (5 to 10) flowers in a terminal cluster or in axils of the stem leaves; corollas yellow, often with orange or red markings, 13-17 mm long, 2-lipped, the upper lip 4-7 mm long, slightly arched, hood-like, beakless or short-beaked but with a pair of slender teeth near the tip, the lower lip 3-lobed, fringed with minute hairs; calyces 4-6 mm long, smooth or somewhat hairy at the base, 2- to 3-lobed; stamens 4, the filaments long-hairy or smooth.

Fruits:
Capsules, narrowly oblong, pointy-tipped, flattened, borne horizontally; seeds several.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia