UW Burke Herbarium species comparison

Simple, narrow with pointed tip;

inflorescence leaves and bracts bright red, sometimes with a few small lobes.

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

Inconspicuous, greenish, tubular flowers, surrounded by a much showier bright red calyx and inflorescence bracts.

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.

2-celled capsules with many seeds.

Capsule.

Our most common Castilleja in the mountians.