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Castilleja angustifolia

Castilleja minor
Castilleja angustifolia

annual paintbrush
Habit Annual, the stem erect, unbranched, glandular-villous, 3-8 dm. tall.
Leaves

Leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate, entire, glandular-pubescent.
Flowers

Inflorescence becoming greatly elongate, the flowers well-spaced;

bracts lanceolate, entire, glandular, much longer than the flowers, the upper third of the upper ones scarlet;

calyx 15-20 mm. long, deeply cleft above and below, its primary lobes again divided into acute, linear segments;

corolla yellowish, not much longer than the calyx, the upper lip short and blunt and the lower lip inconspicuous;

stamens 4.
Fruits

Capsule.

Castilleja angustifolia

Castilleja minor
Flowering time Late June - September
Habitat Alkaline marshes and meadows, mostly at low elevations.
Distribution
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Central Washington and eastern Oregon to southern Montana, south to Arizona.
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Origin Native
Conservation status Not of concern
Sibling taxa
C. ambigua, C. attenuata, C. cervina, C. chambersii, C. cryptantha, C. cusickii, C. elmeri, C. exserta, C. hispida, C. levisecta, C. litoralis, C. lutescens, C. miniata, C. minor, C. parviflora, C. rupicola, C. suksdorfii, C. tenuis, C. thompsonii, C. victoriae
C. ambigua, C. attenuata, C. cervina, C. chambersii, C. cryptantha, C. cusickii, C. elmeri, C. exserta, C. hispida, C. levisecta, C. litoralis, C. lutescens, C. miniata, C. parviflora, C. rupicola, C. suksdorfii, C. tenuis, C. thompsonii, C. victoriae
Subordinate taxa
C. minor var. exilis
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