Castilleja suksdorfii |
Castilleja lassenensis |
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Suksdorf's Indian paintbrush, Suksdorf's paintbrush |
Lassen paintbrush, Mt. Lassen paintbrush |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 3–5(–8) dm; from slender, creeping rhizomes. | Herbs, perennial, 0.8–2.1 dm; from a woody caudex; with slender, branching roots. |
Stems | solitary, sometimes few, erect from a slender, creeping base, unbranched, glabrate or hairs spreading, long, soft to ± stiff and shorter, stipitate-glandular. |
few to many, decumbent-based to erect, unbranched except for short, leafy axillary shoots, hairs sparse, spreading, long, soft, mixed with short stipitate-glandular ones. |
Leaves | green, distal sometimes red-tipped, linear-lanceolate, sometimes distal broadly lanceolate or ovate, 1.2–8.9 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, flat or slightly involute, 0–5(–7)-lobed, apex acute to acuminate, sometimes obtuse or rounded; lateral lobes spreading-ascending or widely spreading, linear, often much narrower than mid blade, apex acute. |
green to purple (sometimes different on stems of same plant), linear-lanceolate, 1–3.5 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, flat, 0(–3)-lobed, apex acute; lobes spreading-ascending, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, apex acute. |
Inflorescences | 2.5–9(–11) × 2–5.5 cm; bracts proximally greenish, distally abruptly red to orange-red, often with a yellow, rarely purplish, medial band, narrowly lanceolate to ovate, 3–7(–11)-lobed; lobes spreading to erect, linear, narrowly lanceolate, or narrowly oblanceolate, long, arising below mid length, apex acute to obtuse. |
2–4.5 × 1.5–2 cm; bracts proximally greenish to dull brownish purple, distally pink to magenta or reddish purple, ovate, broadly lanceolate, or oblong, (0–)3–5-lobed; lobes ascending to erect, lanceolate, medium length, arising near or above mid length, apex acute to rounded. |
Corollas | ± curved, 30–50 mm; tube 11–18 mm; beak exserted, adaxially green, 18–20 mm; abaxial lip deep green, reduced, 1 mm, 10% as long as beak; teeth ascending, deep green, 1 mm. |
straight, 18–20 mm; tube 14–15 mm; abaxial lip sometimes partly exserted, beak usually exserted; beak adaxially white, 7–10 mm, margins white or pale salmon; abaxial lip pale green to yellow-green, inflated, pouches 3, shallow, central pouch shallowly grooved, visible through front cleft, 6–7 mm, 60–70% as long as beak; teeth erect, white, 1–2 mm. |
Calyces | colored as bracts, 20–30 mm; abaxial and adaxial clefts 11–18 mm, 50–75% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 8–12 mm, 30–50% of calyx length; lobes linear, apex acute. |
proximally brown or dull magenta, sometimes green, distally colored as bracts, 11–19 mm; abaxial and adaxial clefts 9–10 mm, 55–60% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 2.5–5 mm, 15–25% of calyx length; lobes oblong, apex rounded. |
Stigmas | pale green. |
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2n | = 36. |
= 24. |
Castilleja suksdorfii |
Castilleja lassenensis |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Sep. | Flowering Jul–Sep. |
Habitat | Mesic to wet meadows, marshes, peatlands, springs, stream margins, montane to subalpine. | Moist to wet meadows, shorelines, subalpine, volcanic soils. |
Elevation | 1000–2200 m. (3300–7200 ft.) | 1500–2500 m. (4900–8200 ft.) |
Distribution |
OR; WA
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CA |
Discussion | Castilleja suksdorfii is endemic to wet habitats in the Cascade Range from the Goat Rocks Wilderness Area in Yakima County, Washington, south to the vicinity of Crater Lake National Park in Klamath County, Oregon. Reports of this species farther north in Washington and southern British Columbia are referable to C. rupicola. Castilleja suksdorfii is a polyploid species and may be of hybrid origin. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Castilleja lassenensis is restricted to the Mt. Lassen area in Shasta and Tehama counties. See the discussion of 55. C. lemmonii for information on the relationship between these two species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 659. | FNA vol. 17, p. 619. |
Parent taxa | Orobanchaceae > Castilleja | Orobanchaceae > Castilleja |
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Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 22: 311. (1887) | Eastwood: Leafl. W. Bot. 2: 244. (1940) |
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