Habit: Annual or perennial herb, glabrous to hairy. Stem: generally erect. Leaf: generally +- sessile, generally green or +- red. Inflorescence: raceme, bracted, or flowers generally 2 per axil. Flower: occasionally cleistogamous; calyx generally green, lobes 5, generally << tube, generally unequal; corolla generally deciduous, white to red, maroon, purple, gold, or yellow, lower lip base occasionally swollen, +- closing mouth, tube-throat floor generally with 2 longitudinal folds; anther sacs spreading; placentas 2, axile; stigma lobes generally included. Fruit: generally ellipsoid, generally upcurved if elongate, generally +- fragile, loculicidal near tip (hard, indehiscent), chambers 1--2. Seed: many, generally < 1 mm, ovoid, +- yellow to dark brown.
Species In Genus: +- 122 species: North America, Chile, eastern Asia. Etymology: (Greek: red flower) Note: Limb width measured between most distant points across corolla face.
Jepson eFlora Author: Naomi S. Fraga [TJM2 author David M. Thompson]
Reference: Barker et al. 2012 Phytoneuron 2012-39:1--60; Nesom 2017 Phytoneuron 2017-17:1--29
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
Key to Erythranthe

List of species Erythranthe acutidens Erythranthe alsinoides Erythranthe androsacea Erythranthe arenaria Erythranthe arenicola Erythranthe arvensis Erythranthe barbata Erythranthe bicolor Erythranthe breviflora Erythranthe breweri Erythranthe calcicola Erythranthe cardinalis Erythranthe carsonensis Erythranthe corallina Erythranthe cordata Erythranthe dentata Erythranthe diffusa Erythranthe discolor Erythranthe erubescens Erythranthe exigua Erythranthe filicaulis Erythranthe filicifolia Erythranthe floribunda Erythranthe geniculata Erythranthe glaucescens Erythranthe gracilipes Erythranthe grandis Erythranthe guttata Erythranthe hardhamiae Erythranthe inconspicua Erythranthe inflatula Erythranthe laciniata Erythranthe latidens Erythranthe lewisii Erythranthe linearifolia Erythranthe marmorata Erythranthe microphylla Erythranthe montioides Erythranthe moschata Erythranthe nasuta Erythranthe norrisii Erythranthe nudata Erythranthe palmeri Erythranthe pardalis Erythranthe parishii Erythranthe percaulis Erythranthe primuloides Erythranthe ptilota Erythranthe pulsiferae Erythranthe purpurea Erythranthe rhodopetra Erythranthe rubella Erythranthe shevockii Erythranthe sierrae Erythranthe suksdorfii Erythranthe taylorii Erythranthe tilingii Erythranthe trinitiensis Erythranthe utahensis

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