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  - Division - Flowering Plants - Anthophyta
    - Class - Dicots - Dicotyledoneae
      - Order - Scrophulariales - Scrophulariales
        
        Family - Broomrape Family - Orobanchaceae
        
        Species - Pallid Indian Paintbrush - Castilleja pallescens

Pallid Indian Paintbrush - Castilleja pallescens

Global Rank: G4
State Rank: S4

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General Description

Perennial. Stems erect, simple, 5–20 cm. Herbage puberulent. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 1–4 cm long, entire, upper often with linear lobes. Inflorescence puberulent to pilose; bracts green, yellow or purple-tipped, lanceolate with 1 or 2 pairs of narrow, lateral lobes. Flowers: calyx yellow,12–22 mm long, primary clefts slightly deeper adjacent to the galea, ultimate lobes acute, 0.5–3 mm long; corolla 16–21 mm long, galea 2–4 mm long, lower lip 2–3 mm long (Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Species Range

Unknown/Undetermined

Range Comments

OR to MT, south to NV and WY (Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Summary of Observations Submitted for Montana

Number of Observations: 33

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Habitat

Grasslands, sagebrush steppe, fellfields, open forests, woodlands; valleys to alpine (Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

References

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- Lesica, P., M. T. Lavin, and P. F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
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Citation for data on this website:
Pallid Indian Paintbrush — Castilleja pallescens. Montana Field Guide. Montana Natural Heritage Program. Retrieved on October 22, 2017, from http://FieldGuide.mt.gov/speciesDetail.aspx?elcode=PDSCR0D2C0