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|accepted_name=Erythranthe cardinalis
|accepted_authority=(Douglas ex Bentham) Spach
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hist. Nat. Vég.
|place=9: 313. 1840
|year=1840
}}
|common_names=Scarlet monkeyflower
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Mimulus cardinalis
|authority=Douglas ex Bentham
|rank=species
|publication_title=Scroph. Ind.,
|publication_place=28. 1835
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=M. cardinalis var. exsul
|authority=Greene
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=M. cardinalis var. griseus
|authority=Greene
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=M. cardinalis var. rigens
|authority=Greene
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Phrymaceae;Erythranthe;Erythranthe cardinalis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Phrymaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Erythranthe]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Erythranthe cardinalis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 373, 378, 394
|treatment_page=page 393
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b> usually erect to ascending, freely branched, 25–75 cm, ± glandular-villous or glabrate. <b>Leaves</b> usually cauline; petiole 0 mm; blade palmately veined, elliptic-ovate to ovate or obovate, 20–90(–110) × 10–38(–60) mm, thick, base acuminate, subclasping, margins irregularly serrate to dentate, apex acute, surfaces ± glandular-villous to glabrate. <b>Fruiting</b> calyces cylindric to cylindric-campanulate, not inflated, 17–28(–30) mm, hispid-hirsute to hirsute, lobes 4–7 mm, ovate to ovate-deltate, apex attenuate-acute. <b>Flowers</b> herkogamous, 2–12, axillary at leafy medial to distal nodes. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels 30–90(–120) mm. <b>Corollas</b> scarlet to orange-red, rarely yellow, throat yellowish, red-striped, palate red, yellow-villous, not spotted or striped, bilaterally symmetric, strongly bilabiate; tube-throat funnelform, (15–)20–30 mm, exserted beyond calyx margin; throat open. <b>Styles</b> glabrous. <b>Anthers</b> exserted, white-villous, thecae spreading. <b>Capsules</b> included, 10–16 mm. <b>2n</b> = 16.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Sep.
|habitat=Moist to wet places along streams, lakes, creek beds, canyon, arroyo, and ravine bottoms, around springs and seepage areas, flood plains, moist clearings and woods edges.
|elevation=(5–)50–2300(–2800) m.
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.;Wash.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p>Yellow-flowered populations of <i>Erythranthe cardinalis</i> occur on Cedros Island, Baja California, and in the Siskiyou Mountains of Oregon (R. K. Vickery 1992). They have been documented also on Santa Cruz Island, California.</p><!--
--><p>Populations of <i>Erythranthe cardinalis</i> in King and Yakima counties, Washington, are introduced and naturalized.</p>
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name=Erythranthe cardinalis
|authority=(Douglas ex Bentham) Spach
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=M. cardinalis var. exsul;M. cardinalis var. griseus;M. cardinalis var. rigens
|basionyms=Mimulus cardinalis
|family=Phrymaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Sep.
|habitat=Moist to wet places along streams, lakes, creek beds, canyon, arroyo, and ravine bottoms, around springs and seepage areas, flood plains, moist clearings and woods edges.
|elevation=(5–)50–2300(–2800) m.
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.;Wash.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=Hist. Nat. Vég.
|publication year=1840
|special status=
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|genus=Erythranthe
|species=Erythranthe cardinalis
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