Burke: Castilleja suksdorfii

	Castilleja suksdorfii
	Suksdorf's paintbrush
Habit	Perennial, the stems erect, solitary, 3-5 dm. tall, from a slender, creeping base, unbranched, glabrate to obscurely villous, to more or less hispid.
Leaves	Leaves alternate, usually glabrous, sometimes all entire and linear-lanceolate, but usually a few upper ones with 1-2 pairs of lateral lobes, these much narrower than the mid-blade.
Flowers	Inflorescence showy, short and thick, but later elongating, the bracts and calyces with a yellow band below the red tips; bracts villous, rather broad, 5-parted, shorter than the flowers; calyx 20-30 mm. long, deeply cleft above and below, its primary lobes again divided into two linear, acute segments 8-12 mm. long; corolla 30-50 mm. long, the upper lip about the length of the tube and many times longer than the dark green, thickened, lower lip; stamens 4.
Fruits	Capsule.

	Castilleja suksdorfii
Flowering time	June-September
Habitat	Subalpine meadows and forests along streams and wet areas.
Distribution	Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest from mainly from Mt. Adams south; In Washington chiefly in the Cascades from Mt. Adams south, occasionally north to Whatcom County; Washington to Crater Lake, Oregon. [WildflowerSearch map] [BONAP county map]
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. tenuis, C. thompsonii, C. victoriae
Web links	Local floras: OR, WA Local Web sites: Flora NW, PNW Herbaria, Turner Photog. WildflowerSearch iNaturalist (observations) USDA Plants Database LBJ Wildflower Center SEINet Plants of the World Online Encyclopedia of Life Wikipedia Google Image Search

Castilleja suksdorfii

Suksdorf's paintbrush

Habit

Perennial, the stems erect, solitary, 3-5 dm. tall, from a slender, creeping base, unbranched, glabrate to obscurely villous, to more or less hispid.

Leaves

Leaves alternate, usually glabrous, sometimes all entire and linear-lanceolate, but usually a few upper ones with 1-2 pairs of lateral lobes, these much narrower than the mid-blade.

Flowers

Inflorescence showy, short and thick, but later elongating, the bracts and calyces with a yellow band below the red tips;

bracts villous, rather broad, 5-parted, shorter than the flowers;

calyx 20-30 mm. long, deeply cleft above and below, its primary lobes again divided into two linear, acute segments 8-12 mm. long;

corolla 30-50 mm. long, the upper lip about the length of the tube and many times longer than the dark green, thickened, lower lip;

stamens 4.

Fruits

Capsule.

Castilleja suksdorfii

Flowering time

June-September

Habitat

Subalpine meadows and forests along streams and wet areas.

Distribution

Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest from mainly from Mt. Adams south; In Washington chiefly in the Cascades from Mt. Adams south, occasionally north to Whatcom County; Washington to Crater Lake, Oregon.

[WildflowerSearch map]

[BONAP county map]

Origin

Native

Conservation status

Not of concern

Sibling taxa