Castilleja crista-galli |
Castilleja wootonii |
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cock's-comb paintbrush, mountainside Indian paintbrush |
Sacramento Mountain Indian paintbrush, Wooton's paintbrush |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 1–5 dm; from a woody caudex; with a taproot. | Herbs, perennial, 1.6–6.5 dm; from a woody caudex; with a woody taproot or branching roots. |
Stems | few to several, erect or ascending, unbranched or branched, sometimes with short, leafy axillary shoots, hairy, sometimes glabrate proximally, hairs spreading to retrorse, medium length to long, soft, eglandular, often mixed distally with shorter stipitate-glandular ones. |
solitary or few to many, erect, unbranched to much-branched, glabrous or hairy proximally and/or distally, hairs sparse to dense, spreading to erect, short to fairly long, soft, eglandular. |
Leaves | green, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 2–8 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, involute, 0–5-lobed, apex acute; lateral lobes spreading, linear, apex acuminate. |
green, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, linear, or narrowly elliptic, 2–8 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, sometimes ± wavy, flat or involute, 0(–5)-lobed, apex acuminate; lobes widely spreading, linear to narrowly lanceolate, apex acute. |
Inflorescences | 3–6(–11) × 1.5–6.5 cm; bracts proximally greenish, distally red, red-orange, or orange, sometimes yellow or dull salmon, narrowly to broadly lanceolate or oblong, 3–5-lobed; lobes ascending-spreading, linear-lanceolate, long, arising below mid length, central lobe apex rounded to obtuse, lateral ones acute. |
3–16 × 2–3.5 cm; bracts proximally greenish, distally red to orange-red, sometimes with a purplish medial band, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate or ovate in outline, (0–)3–5(–7)-lobed, sometimes also with 4 small teeth; lobes ascending, linear-lanceolate, long, arising above or below mid length, apex acuminate, acute, or obtuse. |
Corollas | straight, (25–)30–40(–45) mm; tube 15–20 mm; abaxial lip visible through front cleft, beak long-exserted from calyx; beak adaxially green or yellow-green, 16–21 mm; abaxial lip proximally white or yellow-green, distally green, reduced, usually visible in front cleft, 3 mm, 20% as long as beak; teeth incurved to ascending, green, 1 mm. |
slightly to moderately curved distally, 25–37 mm; tube 16–20 mm; beak exserted 10–16 mm beyond calyx, adaxially green to yellowish, 11–25 mm; abaxial lip green or red, small, inconspicuous, visible through cleft of calyx, 2 mm, 15–20% as long as beak; teeth incurved, green or red, 0.7–1.5 mm. |
Calyces | colored as bracts, (20–)25–35 mm; abaxial and adaxial clefts (6–)10–17 mm, 50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral (1–)3–6(–10) mm, 35% of calyx length; lobes slender, triangular, apex acute. |
proximally green, distally red, 20–25 mm; abaxial clefts 11–14(–17) mm, adaxial 8–9 mm, abaxial 50–60% of calyx length, adaxial 35–40% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 5–7 mm, 10–15% of calyx length; lobes lanceolate to narrowly triangular, apex acute to acuminate. |
2n | = 96. |
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Castilleja crista-galli |
Castilleja wootonii |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | Flowering Jun–Sep. |
Habitat | Rocky slopes, talus, ridges, dry to moist, open, conifer forests, montane meadows. | Grasslands, rocky slopes, ledges, canyons, open forests, montane to subalpine. |
Elevation | 1500–2900 m. (4900–9500 ft.) | 2000–3700 m. (6600–12100 ft.) |
Distribution |
ID; MT; WY
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NM; TX
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Discussion | Castilleja crista-galli is found in the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Montana and northwestern Wyoming. The extent of its distribution into adjacent Idaho is unresolved, in part because it is frequently confused with either C. linariifolia or C. miniata. Castilleja crista-galli appears to be morphologically intermediate between them, leading to speculation that it might be an allopolyploid derivative. A DNA study (S. Matthews and M. Lavin 1998) showed little support for a hybrid origin. Castilleja crista-galli may be separated with some difficulty from the other two species by the presence of at least some short hairs on the stems and the frequently three- to five-parted leaves. Castilleja linariifolia and C. miniata both usually have subglabrous stems and entire leaves, sometimes three-parted distally, near the inflorescence. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Castilleja wootonii is endemic to the White Mountains (Sierra Blanca) in south-central New Mexico and to the Mt. Livermore massif of western Texas. It should be sought in the intervening Guadalupe Mountains. Based on morphology, C. wootonii appears to be a southern derivative of C. linariifolia. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 599. | FNA vol. 17, p. 665. |
Parent taxa | Orobanchaceae > Castilleja | Orobanchaceae > Castilleja |
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Synonyms | C. ciliata | |
Name authority | Rydberg: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 1: 355. (1900) | Standley: Muhlenbergia 5: 84. (1909) |
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