Scarlet Monkeyflower
Erythranthe cardinalis
Streamside perennial blazing with tubular scarlet flowers all summer, a hummingbird magnet. Thrives in mud, seeps, and pond edges where most natives won't. Recorded as a food plant in Indigenous ethnobotany, though the record doesn't say how it was prepared.
- Family
- Phrymaceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 2.5–2.5 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, wet
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- May, June, July, August, September
- Bloom colors
- red, orange
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, hummingbirds
- Landscape uses
- border, rain garden, erosion control, naturalizing
- Native states
- AZ, CA, NM, NV, OR, WA