Castilleja schizotricha |
Castilleja wootonii |
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split hair Indian paintbrush, split-hair paintbrush |
Sacramento Mountain Indian paintbrush, Wooton's paintbrush |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 0.8–1.5 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 many, ascending to erect, unbranched, hairs dense, appressed-ascending, matted, long, soft, branched, eglandular, ± white-woolly, obscuring surface. |
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 | gray-green with hairs, surface green to purple, linear-lanceolate, 0.5–2 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, ± involute, 0(–3)-lobed, apex acute to acuminate, sometimes rounded; lobes sometimes divergent, spreading-ascending, narrowly linear, apex acute. |
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 | 3–8 × 1–2 cm; bracts purple, lavender, pinkish, or dusty red throughout, sometimes greenish throughout or proximally greenish, distally colored as above, obscured by hairs, lanceolate, 3(–5)-lobed; lobes ascending to erect, linear to oblanceolate, short, arising near or above mid length, apex obtuse. |
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, 15–20 mm; tube 8–9 mm; beak included to slightly exserted, adaxially purple or pink, 3.9–5 mm, densely puberulent with white, woolly hairs; abaxial lip deep purple, inconspicuous, pouched, pouches shallow, 3–5 mm, 80–100% as long as beak; teeth upright-ascending, reduced, appearing white, 1.5–2 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, 11–18 mm; abaxial and adaxial clefts 3.5–6 mm, 33–50% of calyx length, all 4 clefts subequal, lateral 4–6 mm, 33–50% of calyx length; lobes linear, 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. |
Castilleja schizotricha |
Castilleja wootonii |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug. | Flowering Jun–Sep. |
Habitat | Meadows, ledges, rocky or gravelly slopes, subalpine to alpine, marble, granite, or serpentine substrates. | Grasslands, rocky slopes, ledges, canyons, open forests, montane to subalpine. |
Elevation | 1600–2600 m. (5200–8500 ft.) | 2000–3700 m. (6600–12100 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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NM; TX
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Discussion | Castilleja schizotricha is a rare species restricted to high elevations in the mountains in Siskiyou and Trinity counties in northwestern California and in Jackson and western Klamath counties in southwestern Oregon. See the discussion of 6. C. arachnoidea for morphological differences between it and C. schizotricha, as the two are sometimes confused. Though their ranges overlap, they do not appear to hybridize. (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. 655. | FNA vol. 17, p. 665. |
Parent taxa | Orobanchaceae > Castilleja | Orobanchaceae > Castilleja |
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Synonyms | C. arachnoidea subsp. schizotricha | C. ciliata |
Name authority | Greenman: Bot. Gaz. 53: 511. (1912) | Standley: Muhlenbergia 5: 84. (1909) |
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