Castilleja foliolosa is a species of paintbrush, known by the common names felt paintbrush and chaparral paintbrush.

Castilleja foliolosa
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Orobanchaceae
Genus: Castilleja
Species:
C. foliolosa
Binomial name
Castilleja foliolosa

It is native to California and northern Baja California, where it grows in chaparral and rocky desert and mountain slopes.

Description

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Castilleja foliolosa is a perennial wildflower that grows up to 60 centimeters tall and is coated in woolly white or gray branching hairs. The leaves are linear in shape and up to 5 centimeters long.

The inflorescence is made up of layers of bracts tipped in bright orange-red to dull yellowish green. Between the colorful bracts appear the nondescript flowers, which are greenish in color and pouch-shaped. The fruit is a capsule just over a centimeter long.

Names

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Castilleja foliolosa is known in English by the common names of "felt paintbrush",[1] "chaparral paintbrush",[2] or "wooly painted-cup".[3] It is also called "wooly paintbrush",[4] however it shares this name with the species Castilleja lanata.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Connelly, Kevin (1991). Gardener's Guide to California Wildflowers. Sun Valley, California: Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants. pp. 50, 76. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  2. ^ Kelch, Dean G.; Murdock, Andrew (2012). "Flora of the Carquinez Strait Region, Contra Costa and Solano Counties, California". Madroño: A West American journal of botany. 59 (2). Berkeley, California: California Botanical Society: 48. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  3. ^ Brako, Lois; Rossman, Amy Y.; Farr, David F. (1995). Scientific and Common Names of 7,000 Vascular Plants in the United States. St. Paul, Minnesota: APS Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-89054-171-5. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  4. ^ Cooney-Lazaneo, Mary Beth; Lyons, Kathleen B. (1981). Plants of Big Basin Redwoods State Park and the Coastal Mountains of Northern California. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Pub. Co. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-87842-135-0.
  5. ^ Rose, Frank S. (2011). Mountain wildflowers of Southern Arizona: a field guide to the Santa Catalina Mountains and nearby ranges. Tucson, Arizona: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-886679-42-9. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
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