Castilleja campestris
Castilleja campestris | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Orobanchaceae |
Genus: | Castilleja |
Species: | C. campestris
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Binomial name | |
Castilleja campestris (Benth.) T.I.Chuang & Heckard
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Castilleja campestris is a species of Indian paintbrush known by the common name vernal pool Indian paintbrush. It is native to California and southern Oregon, where it grows in seasonally moist habitat, especially vernal pools.
Description
It is an annual herb growing 10 to 30 centimeters tall with linear or narrowly lance-shaped leaves up to 4 centimeters long. The inflorescence is up to 15 centimeters long. It is filled with leaflike green bracts which are generally not tipped with another color. The flower is yellow or orange.
Subspecies
There are two subspecies of this plant. The rare Castilleja campestris subspecies succulenta, the succulent owl's clover or fleshy Indian paintbrush, is endemic to California and limited to the San Joaquin Valley of California and adjacent lower Sierra Nevada foothills, where its vernal pool habitat has been largely eliminated for human activity such as agriculture and development.
External links
- Jepson Manual Treatment: Castilleja campestris
- Castilleja campestris Photo gallery
- Photo gallery: Castilleja campestris ssp. succulenta
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles with 'species' microformats
- Taxonbars with automatically added basionyms
- Castilleja
- Plants described in 1839
- Flora of California
- Flora of Oregon
- Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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