#Indian paintbrush lower classifications manual
^ "UC/JEPS: Jepson Manual treatment for CASTILLEJA angustifolia".Sagebrush Country: A Wildflower Sanctuary (rev. ed.). ^ "Desert Indian Paintbrush, Castilleja chromosa or angustifolia - DesertUSA".^ "Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin".^ "Southwest Colorado Wildflowers, Castilleja chromosa".^ "Plants Profile for Castilleja angustifolia (northwestern Indian paintbrush)".The species is similar to Castilleja linariaefolia. The centimeter-long capsule fruits contain honeycomb-patterned seeds. The brightly colored bracts are used to attach pollinators like hummingbirds and butterflies that would otherwise ignore the plant's small yellow green flowers. In areas such as Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, it is often associated with sagebrush. The upper leaves and bracts are divided into 3–5 segments, while the lower leaves are undivided, long, and narrow. The alternate, narrowly lance-shaped leaves, 3-8 cm long, have entire. The flowers are encased in bright red to orange-red bracts, sometimes tinted with purple, and usually fuzzy with a thin coat of white hairs. Annual Indian Paintbrush is an annual with erect, unbranched stems that are 3-8 dm high.
It stands in a clump of erect stems, each topped with an inflorescence of somewhat tubular yellow green flowers. This Indian paintbrush is under half a meter in height and has bristly gray-green to purple-red herbage. More images Castilleja miniata Plant Castilleja miniata is a species of Indian paintbrush known by the common name giant red Indian paintbrush. Desert paintbrush blazing up through bitterbrush on eastern Sierra Nevada hillside
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