Castilleja lineata
Castilleja puberula
linear-lobed paintbrush, lineated paintbrush, marsh-meadow Indian paintbrush
alpine paintbrush, short-flower paintbrush, shortflower Indian 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 several, erect or ascending, unbranched, sometimes branched, hairs retrorse, short, soft, eglandular.
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 to linear-lanceolate, 2–3.3 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, involute, 0–3(–5)-lobed, apex acuminate;
lobes ascending-spreading to widely spreading, narrowly linear, apex acute.
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.
4–5 × 1.5–2.5 cm;
bracts greenish throughout, or proximally greenish, distally bright yellow, yellow-green, or yellow-orange on apices, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 0–5(–7)-lobed;
lobes spreading, filiform to linear, long, proximal lobes arising in proximal 1/2, apex acute to acuminate.
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, 18–21 mm;
tube 13–15 mm;
beak exserted, adaxially yellow to yellow-green, 6–8 mm;
abaxial lip green, reduced, visible in front cleft, slightly pouched, 2.5–3.5 mm, 35–60% as long as beak;
teeth erect, yellow, 1 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.
light green to yellowish, margins sometimes yellow, 10–17 mm;
abaxial clefts 8–9 mm, adaxial 2–3 mm, abaxial ca. 50% of calyx length, adaxial ca. 20% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 1.9–2.5 mm, 12–20% of calyx length;
lobes narrowly triangular, apex acute to acuminate.
= 24.
= 24.
Castilleja lineata
Castilleja puberula
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 puberula is a near-endemic of alpine communities in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado in Boulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Grand, Larimer, and Park counties. A highly disjunct population occurs near the summit of Mt. Jefferson on the Continental Divide in Beaverhead County, Montana. Castilleja puberula appears to be a high-elevation isolate from the widespread C. flava, which is common at lower elevations in the Intermountain Region. A single case of hybridization with C. septentrionalis is known from Clear Creek County.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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