Authors: Kellogg  

Botanical Description

Stems 30-100cm, bushy. Leaves entire, mostly cauline, 2-7cm long. Flowers 2.2-3.3cm long, scarlet or orangey-red. Dry places in sagebrush, pinyon pine-juniper, Gambel oak, ponderosa pine and mountain mahogany communities at 1600-2750m in Cahfornia, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. Generally too tall for rock gardens. Rather long-lived.