Castilleja foliolosa

Castilleja foliolosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Orobanchaceae
Genus:	Castilleja
Species:	C. foliolosa
Binomial name
	Castilleja foliolosa; Hook. & Arn.

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

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

Description[edit]

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[edit]

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]

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^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.

[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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