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long leaf paintbrush, longleaf Indian paintbrush

Habit Herbs 4–4.5 dm.
Stems

greenish, sometimes dull reddish, hairs spreading, short to long.

Leaves

green, linear-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, margins plane;

lobe apex acute.

Inflorescences

6–21 × 2–4 cm;

bracts green to purple throughout, or distally bright red to orange or salmon, (0–)3-lobed.

Corollas

31–42 mm;

beak exceeding calyx but beak, abaxial lip, and often part of tube usually exserted out abaxial cleft;

beak adaxially green to yellow-green, rarely yellow, margins red to orange, rarely yellow, not strongly contrasting with color of calyces;

abaxial lip green;

teeth green to purple, sometimes red at tip, 0.6 mm.

Calyces

proximally green to purple, distally red to orange, 20–30 mm;

abaxial clefts 15–20 mm, adaxial 12–13 mm, lateral 3–5 mm;

lobe apex acute to acuminate.

2n

= ca. 72.

Castilleja subinclusa var. subinclusa

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jul.
Habitat Brushy openings in pine-oak woods.
Elevation 200–2200 m. (700–7200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Variety subinclusa is endemic to openings in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada from Placer County south to Calaveras County in central California. It is geographically replaced by var. franciscana to the west and by var. jepsonii to the south and southwest.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 17, p. 658.
Parent taxa Orobanchaceae > Castilleja > Castilleja subinclusa
Sibling taxa
C. subinclusa var. franciscana, C. subinclusa var. jepsonii
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