Castilleja lindheimeri A. Gray

common name
  Lindheimer's paintbrush
accepted scientific name
  Castilleja lindheimeri A.Gray
rules for finding collection records
  Castilleja lindheimeri (309)
  Castilleja purpurea lindheimeri (127)
family name
  Orobanchaceae

Category: Wildflowers
Flowers: No obvious petals
Petal colors:

Leaf: Alternate
Plant Observed last week of February thru 2nd week of August

Habit	Herbs, perennial, 1.5–3 dm; from a woody caudex; with a taproot.
Stems	several, erect or ascending, branched or unbranched, sometimes with axillary tufts of leaves, hairs spreading to ± appressed, ± matted, short, soft, eglandular.
Leaves	green to purple, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 1.3–7 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, sometimes ± wavy, involute, 3–5-lobed, apex acute to obtuse; lobes ascending, linear to narrowly lanceolate, apex acute.
Inflorescences	4.5–18 × 1.5–3.5 cm; bracts proximally pale greenish to dull greenish brown, distally orange, reddish orange, or pale orange, sometimes reddish, lanceolate to oblong, 3(–5)-lobed; lobes ascending to spreading, linear to broadly lanceolate or oblanceolate, proximal ones usually arising below mid length, rarely at or above mid length, apex obtuse to acute.
Corollas	± curved, 30–40 mm; tube 20–27 mm; beak, sometimes teeth of abaxial lip, exserted; beak adaxially green to yellowish, 8–15 mm; abaxial lip green, reduced, 2–3.5 mm, 20–25% as long as beak; teeth prominent, petaloid, spreading to erect, colored as in distal portion of bracts, 0.5–3 mm.
Calyces	proximally greenish or pale, distally colored as bracts, 23–33 mm; abaxial and adaxial clefts 10–15 mm, 40–50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 7–11 mm, 20–35% of calyx length; lobes oblong to broadly linear, central lobe apex obtuse to rounded, lateral ones acute to rounded.

Castilleja lindheimeri | Lindheimer's paintbrush (wildflowersearch.org)

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