Castilleja attenuata |
Castilleja elmeri |
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attenuate paintbrush, valley-tassels |
Elmer's paintbrush |
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Habit | Slender annual 1-3.5 dm. tall, the stem usually simple, the herbage with short, stiff spreading hairs throughout. | Perennial herb, the stems clustered, erect or ascending from a woody base, 1.5-3 dm. tall, usually unbranched, viscid-villous. |
Leaves | Leaves alternate, all cauline, narrowly lance-linear, long-tapered to the base, 2-6 cm. long, entire or the upper 3-cleft. |
Leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate, usually entire, viscid-puberulent; bracts broader than the leaves, oblong-ovate, viscid-villous, usually entire and rounded. |
Flowers | Inflorescence elongate and narrow, the bracts becoming shorter and more cleft than the leaves, white or yellowish; calyx equally lobed; corolla 1-2.5 cm. long, linear, whitish to pinkish, the lower lip more yellowish with some purple spots; teeth of the lower lip erect, slender, nearly equaling the galea |
Inflorescence showy, crimson to yellow, with intermediate colors not uncommon; calyx 15-25 mm. long, equally cleft above and below, its primary lobes again divided into 2 blunt segments; corolla 20-30 mm. long, the upper lip nearly as long as the tube and 4-5 times as long as the dark green, thickened, lower lip; stamens 4; ovary superior. |
Fruits | Capsule. |
Capsule. |
Castilleja attenuata |
Castilleja elmeri |
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Flowering time | April-June | June-August |
Habitat | Drier areas at low elevations. | Moist, open slopes at middle elevations to the subalpine. |
Distribution | Occurring chiefly west of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California and Arizona.
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Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington from the Wenatchee Mountains and northward; south-central British Columbia to Kittitas County in Washington.
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Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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