Authors: Douglas
Densely sticky-hairy perennial forming wide clumps or colonies by slender rhizomes. Leaves ovate to oblong, l-4cm long, more or less finely toothed. Flowers 1.8-2.5cm long, light yellow, sometimes dotted red-brown, summer. California to British Columbia and Montana, in moist to wet habitats, naturalised in eastern U.S.A. and Europe including occasionally the British Isles. When first introduced into Britain this species had a sweet musk scent, but several generation of plants later this unaccountably disappeared. However, scented plants are still reported from the wild.
a, M. 'Andean Nymph'; b, M. moschatus;