Castilleja lineata
Castilleja haydenii
linear-lobed paintbrush, lineated paintbrush, marsh-meadow Indian paintbrush
Hayden's Indian paintbrush, Hayden's paintbrush
few to many, erect or strongly ascending, unbranched except for small, leafy axillary shoots, hairs spreading-reflexed to ± appressed, matted, long, soft, with much shorter stipitate-glandular ones, white-woolly.
few to many, spreading to ascending, unbranched except for short, leafy shoots in axils of leaves, glabrate to distally puberulent, hairs sparse to dense, spreading, ± short, soft, sometimes stipitate-glandular.
green, linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly lanceolate, 1.3–5 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, sometimes wavy, involute, 3–7-lobed, apex acute;
lobes divergent, spreading-ascending, linear, apex acute to acuminate.
green to purple, linear or narrowly lanceolate to narrowly oblong, (1.1–)2–8 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, involute, (0–)3–7(–9)-lobed, apex acute to obtuse;
lobes spreading, linear to narrowly lanceolate, apex acuminate.
5–22 × 1–4.5 cm;
bracts green to yellow-green throughout, or proximally green to yellow-green, distally yellow to sometimes pale yellow-orange, narrowly lanceolate to narrowly oblong or broadly lanceolate, 3(–7)-lobed;
lobes ascending to spreading, linear to oblong, medium length to long, arising near or below mid length, central lobe apex rounded to obtuse, lateral ones acute.
2.5–5.5 × 1.5–2.5 cm;
bracts rose purple, magenta, lilac, or crimson throughout, or proximally greenish to dull purplish, distally as above, lanceolate to ovate or broadly elliptic, 3–7(–13)-lobed;
lobes spreading to erect, linear to narrowly lanceolate, long or short, proximal arising below mid length, central lobe apex rounded to acute, lateral ones acute.
straight or slightly curved, 14–22 mm;
tube 7–14 mm;
beak tip barely exserted from calyx;
beak adaxially greenish, 4–7 mm;
abaxial lip green to yellow, reduced, 1–4 mm, usually less than 67% as long as beak;
teeth erect, white to yellow, 1–2.5 mm.
straight or slightly curved, 20–25 mm;
tube 13–15 mm;
beak exserted, sometimes part of abaxial lip equal to or exceeding calyx;
beak adaxially green, 6–8 mm;
abaxial lip greenish at base, becoming white to rose pink on apices, reduced, slightly pouched, 2–3 mm, 33–50% as long as beak;
teeth ascending, white, pink, or green, 1–2.2 mm.
colored as bracts, 15–20 mm;
abaxial and adaxial clefts 5.5–8 mm, 30–50% of calyx length, ± deeper than laterals, sometimes appearing subequal in pressed specimens, lateral 5–6 mm, ca. 33% of calyx length;
lobes linear to narrowly lanceolate, sometimes expanded towards apices, apex acute.
colored as bracts, 12–26 mm;
abaxial and adaxial clefts 5–10 mm, 50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 0.2–6 mm, 25% of calyx length;
lobes triangular, apex acute.
= 24.
= 24.
Castilleja lineata
Castilleja haydenii
Castilleja lineata is restricted to the mountains of northeastern Arizona, southern Colorado, and northwestern New Mexico. It is uncommon throughout its range and is without apparent close relatives. The Navajo used C. lineata as a medicinal plant and for its sweet nectar (D. E. Moerman 1998).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Castilleja haydenii is endemic to high-elevation slopes in the Rocky Mountains of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. It is known in Utah from a single collection from high elevations in the La Sal Mountains. Reports of this species elsewhere are usually attributable to C. rhexiifolia. Its affinities are uncertain. Some features are shared with C. rhexiifolia, but in other ways it resembles species such as C. lemmonii of the Sierra Nevada. Plants in the northwestern portions of its range tend to have less divided leaves. Castilleja haydenii occasionally hybridizes with C. occidentalis where the two commingle in the lower alpine zone.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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