General:
Perennial herb from a well-developed, creeping rhizome, slimy and sticky-white-hairy throughout, often musk-scented; stems decumbent to creeping, rooting at the lower nodes, 10-70 cm long, freely branched.

Leaves:
Opposite, egg-shaped, short-stalked becoming nearly unstalked upward, 1-7 cm long, remotely and sometimes vaguely coarse-toothed, pinnately veined, reduced in the inflorescence.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a loose, terminal raceme of few to several, long-stalked flowers in the axils of the upper leaves, the stalks slender, 0.5-5 cm long; corollas tubular-cylindric, yellow often with red stripes or dots in the short throat, 1.5-3 cm long, weakly 2-lipped, subequally 5-lobed, the lower lip bearded along ridges at the throat; calyces bell-shaped, slimy-hairy especially on the ribs, 6-13 mm long , 5-toothed, the upper tooth slightly larger than the others; stamens 4.

Fruits:
Capsules, egg-shaped, pointy-tipped, 4-9 mm long; seeds numerous, 0.2-0.3 mm long.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia