Page authors: Don Knoke, David Giblin
Castilleja minor
annual paintbrush
Specimens
Photos

Distribution: Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; south-central British Columbia to California, east to the Rocky Mountains.

Habitat: Alkaline marshes and meadows, mostly at low elevations.

Flowers: June-September

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Annual, Biennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Description:
General:

Annual, the stem erect, unbranched, glandular-villous, 3-8 dm. tall.

Leaves:

Leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate, entire, glandular-pubescent.

Flowers:

Inflorescence becoming greatly elongate, the flowers well-spaced; bracts lanceolate, entire, glandular, much longer than the flowers, the upper third of the upper ones scarlet; calyx 15-20 mm. long, deeply cleft above and below, its primary lobes again divided into acute, linear segments; corolla yellowish, not much longer than the calyx, the upper lip short and blunt and the lower lip inconspicuous; stamens 4.

Fruits:

Capsule.

Accepted Name:
Castilleja minor (A. Gray) A. Gray
Publication: Bot. California [W.H.Brewer] i. 573. 1876.

Synonyms & Misapplications:
(none provided)
Infraspecies:
Additional Resources:

PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Castilleja minor in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database

WA Flora Checklist: Castilleja minor checklist entry

OregonFlora: Castilleja minor information

E-Flora BC: Castilleja minor atlas page

CalPhotos: Castilleja minor photos

25 photographs:
Group by