Castilleja angustifolia

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Castilleja angustifolia
Castilleja angustifolia 1.jpg
Status TNC G5.svg
Secure  (NatureServe) [1]
Scientific classification Red Pencil Icon.png
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Orobanchaceae
Genus: Castilleja
Species:
C. angustifolia
Binomial name
Castilleja angustifolia
Synonyms

Castilleja angustifolia (synonym: Castilleja chromosa) is a species of wildflower known by the common names northwestern Indian paintbrush and desert Indian paintbrush. It is an herbaceous perennial native to the desert, scrublands, and woodlands of western North America. [2] It grows in hot sandy soils and rock crevices in dry conditions. [3]

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Description

Desert paintbrush blazing up through bitterbrush on eastern Sierra Nevada hillside Desert paintbrush Castilleja chromosa hillside.jpg
Desert paintbrush blazing up through bitterbrush on eastern Sierra Nevada hillside

This Indian paintbrush is under half a meter in height and has bristly gray-green to purple-red herbage. It stands in a clump of erect stems, each topped with an inflorescence of somewhat tubular yellow green flowers. The flowers are encased in bright red to orange-red bracts, [4] sometimes tinted with purple, and usually fuzzy with a thin coat of white hairs. [5] The upper leaves and bracts are divided into 3–5 segments, while the lower leaves are undivided, long, and narrow. [6]

The plant flowers from May to September. [7] In areas such as Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, it is often associated with sagebrush. [6] The brightly colored bracts are used to attach pollinators like hummingbirds and butterflies that would otherwise ignore the plant's small yellow green flowers. [8] The centimeter-long capsule fruits contain honeycomb-patterned seeds.

The species is similar to Castilleja linariaefolia . [6]

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<i>Castilleja applegatei</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Castilleja exserta</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Castilleja linariifolia</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Castilleja cinerea</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Castilleja foliolosa</i> Species of flowering plant

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Castilleja lasiorhyncha is a species of Indian paintbrush is endemic to southern California known by the common name San Bernardino Mountains Indian paintbrush. Most of the plant's range is in the San Bernardino Mountains, where it grows in forests and meadows.

<i>Castilleja latifolia</i> Species of flowering plant

Castilleja latifolia is a species of Indian paintbrush known by the common name Monterey Indian paintbrush.

<i>Castilleja lineariiloba</i> Species of flowering plant

Castilleja lineariiloba is a species of Indian paintbrush known by the common name sagebrush Indian paintbrush that is endemic to the grasslands of the Sierra Nevada foothills in California.

<i>Castilleja miniata</i> Species of flowering plant

Castilleja miniata is a species of Indian paintbrush known by the common name giant red Indian paintbrush. It is native to western North America from Alaska to Ontario to California to New Mexico, where it grows usually in moist places in a wide variety of habitat types.

<i>Castilleja mollis</i> Species of flowering plant

Castilleja mollis is a species of Indian paintbrush known by the common name softleaf Indian paintbrush. It is endemic to the Channel Islands of California, where it is currently known only from Santa Rosa Island. An occurrence was once noted on San Miguel Island, but the plant has not been found there since 1938. Its habitat is the coastal sage scrub around the windy sand dunes and bluffs.

<i>Castilleja parviflora</i> Species of flowering plant

Castilleja parviflora is a species of Indian paintbrush known by the common name mountain Indian paintbrush. It is native to western North America from Alaska to California, where it grows in high mountain habitat, including areas of alpine climate.

Castilleja pilosa is a species of Indian paintbrush known by the common name parrothead Indian paintbrush. It is native to the western United States from California to Wyoming, where it grows in mountain and plateau habitat across the Great Basin and surrounding regions. It is known from sagebrush scrub to high mountains in alpine climates.

Castilleja praeterita is a species of Indian paintbrush known by the common name Salmon Creek Indian paintbrush. It is endemic to the High Sierra Nevada of California, where it grows in dry sagebrush meadows.

<i>Castilleja subinclusa</i> Species of flowering plant

Castilleja subinclusa is a species of Indian paintbrush known by the common names longleaf Indian paintbrush and Franciscan paint brush.

<i>Castilleja levisecta</i> Species of flowering plant

Castilleja levisecta is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae known by the common name golden paintbrush, or golden Indian paintbrush, listed under the Endangered Species Act in 1997. It is native to British Columbia and Washington, where it is known from eleven remaining populations. It occurred in Oregon but all natural occurrences there have been extirpated. It has been reintroduced to a few areas in Oregon, but it remains to be seen if the plants will survive. The plant is a federally listed endangered species of Canada and was listed as threatened in the United States in 1997. On June 30, 2021, the plant was proposed for delisting due to recovery.

<i>Castilleja coccinea</i> Species of plant

Castilleja coccinea, commonly known as scarlet Indian paintbrush or scarlet painted-cup, is a biennial flowering plant in the Orobanchaceae (broomrape) family. It is usually found in prairies, rocky glades, moist and open woodlands, thickets, and along streams in central and eastern North America.

Castilleja kerryana is a species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae. It is commonly known as Kerry's Indian paintbrush or Kerry’spaintbrush. It was formally described in 2013 and so far it is known only from a small population in the state of Montana, in the Northwestern United States.

References

  1. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  2. "Plants Profile for Castilleja angustifolia (northwestern Indian paintbrush)". plants.usda.gov. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  3. "Southwest Colorado Wildflowers, Castilleja chromosa". www.swcoloradowildflowers.com. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  4. "Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin". www.wildflower.org. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  5. "Desert Indian Paintbrush, Castilleja chromosa or angustifolia - DesertUSA". www.desertusa.com. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  6. 1 2 3 Taylor, Ronald J. (1994) [1992]. Sagebrush Country: A Wildflower Sanctuary (rev. ed.). Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Pub. Co. p. 56. ISBN   0-87842-280-3. OCLC   25708726.
  7. "UC/JEPS: Jepson Manual treatment for CASTILLEJA angustifolia". ucjeps.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  8. "Desert Paintbrush - Parashant National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Archived from the original on 2020-02-05. Retrieved 2020-02-05.