Castilleja brevilobata
Castilleja praeterita
short-lobed paintbrush
Salmon Creek Indian paintbrush, Salmon Creek paintbrush
solitary or few, erect or ascending, unbranched, sometimes branched, hairs spreading, short, medium, and long, soft, short and medium ones short stipitate-glandular.
several to many, ascending to erect, ± decumbent at base, branched or unbranched, sometimes with short, leafy axillary shoots, hairs spreading to ascending, long, soft to ± stiff, mixed with short-eglandular ones.
green or ± yellow, lanceolate, elliptic, or oblong to narrowly ovate, 1–2(–2.5) cm, not fleshy, margins plane or wavy, involute, (0–)3–5(–7)-lobed, apex rounded to acute;
lobes ascending to erect, linear to lanceolate, apex rounded to acute.
purple or green, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 3–5 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, partly involute, 3–5-lobed, apex acuminate, acute, or rounded;
lobes sometimes divergent, spreading-ascending, linear, apex obtuse to rounded.
3–20 × 2–3.5 cm;
bracts proximally greenish to dull brown, distally red, orange-red, or scarlet, sometimes orange or yellow, broadly lanceolate or oblong, (0–)3–5-lobed;
lobes ascending, broadly to narrowly lanceolate, short, arising above mid length, apex acute, obtuse, or rounded.
(2.5–)5–15 × 1.5–2 cm;
bracts proximally green to dull purplish, distally pale reddish purple, dull red, pale salmon, pale orange, or bright to pale yellow, oblong, 3(–5)-lobed;
lobes spreading to ascending, linear to oblanceolate, distal pair, if present, short and toothlike, short to long, arising at or above mid length, center lobe apex rounded to truncate, lateral lobes obtuse to rounded.
straight, 15–24(–26) mm;
tube 12–16 mm;
beak exserted, abaxial lip equal to calyx;
beak adaxially green or ± yellow-green, 7–10 mm, puberulent, stipitate-glandular;
abaxial lip deep green, reduced, rounded, 1–2 mm, 10–25% as long as beak;
teeth incurved to erect, light green, 0.5–1 mm.
straight, 11–16 mm;
tube 10–13 mm;
beak included or tip exserted;
beak adaxially green, 4–5 mm;
abaxial lip deep green, reduced, with narrow pouches, 2.5–3 mm, 30–45% as long as beak;
teeth reduced to minute apiculations, dark green, 0.5–1 mm.
green or whitish with green veins, lobes colored as bract lobes or paler, 14–30 mm;
abaxial and adaxial clefts 5.5–8.5 mm, 30–40% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 1.5–4 mm, 20–25% of calyx length;
lobes oblong to narrowly triangular, apex obtuse to rounded.
proximally usually whitish, distally colored as bracts, 13–18 mm;
abaxial and adaxial clefts 5–6(–9) mm, ca. 50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 0.5–1.2 mm, ca. 18% of calyx length;
lobes ± hemispheric, segments often curved outwards, exposing corollas, apex rounded to obtuse, rarely acute.
= 24.
= 24.
Castilleja brevilobata
Castilleja praeterita
Castilleja brevilobata is endemic to dry serpentine openings in the Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon and adjacent California. Although sometimes treated as part of C. applegatei or C. hispida, its morphology does not suggest a close connection with either. This species occasionally hybridizes with C. pruinosa in Del Norte County, California.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Castilleja praeterita is endemic to subalpine, sagebrush-dominated meadows in the southeastern Sierra Nevada of Inyo and Tulare counties. It is closely associated with and likely parasitic on Artemisia rothrockii. Inflorescence coloration varies by population, with some having only yellow-bracted plants, while others are pale orange to pale red with occasional pale yellow variants. Yet other populations have only pale salmon-colored bracts.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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