Blooms: June-August
Habit: herb
Duration: perennial
Origin: Native
Conservation Status: Abundant; of no concern.
Distribution: Chiefly west of the Cascades in Washington; from southern British Columbia to central Oregon.
Habitat: Rock crevices and rocky slopes, usually above timberline.
Habit: herb
Duration: perennial
Origin: Native
Conservation Status: Abundant; of no concern.
Distribution: Chiefly west of the Cascades in Washington; from southern British Columbia to central Oregon.
Habitat: Rock crevices and rocky slopes, usually above timberline.
Species Description:
General: Perennial, the stems clustered, erect or ascending from a woody base, unbranched, 1-2 dm. tall.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, finely villous, deeply divided into 3-5 divergent lobes, the lateral segments not much narrower than the mid-blade.
Flowers: Inflorescence showy, short and few-flowered, bright scarlet or crimson; bracts villous, 5-parted, much shorter than the flowers; calyx 15-25 mm. long, deeply cleft above and below, its primary lobes again divided into 2 segments 1-5 mm. long; corolla 25-35 mm. long, the upper lip equal or longer than the tube and many times longer than the dark green, thickened, lower lip; stamens 4.
Fruits: Capsule.
General: Perennial, the stems clustered, erect or ascending from a woody base, unbranched, 1-2 dm. tall.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, finely villous, deeply divided into 3-5 divergent lobes, the lateral segments not much narrower than the mid-blade.
Flowers: Inflorescence showy, short and few-flowered, bright scarlet or crimson; bracts villous, 5-parted, much shorter than the flowers; calyx 15-25 mm. long, deeply cleft above and below, its primary lobes again divided into 2 segments 1-5 mm. long; corolla 25-35 mm. long, the upper lip equal or longer than the tube and many times longer than the dark green, thickened, lower lip; stamens 4.
Fruits: Capsule.
Accepted Name:
Castilleja rupicola Piper ex Fern.Synonyms:
(none)
Treated in Flora of the PNW as:
Castilleja rupicola
Additional Resources:
PNW Herbaria Specimens: View list of Castilleja rupicola specimens in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.
WTU Herbarium Specimens: View list of Castilleja rupicola specimens in the WTU Herbarium database.
Washington Flora Checklist: Castilleja rupicola treatment.
E-Flora BC: Castilleja rupicola atlas page.
CalPhotos: Castilleja rupicola images.
USDA Plants Database: Castilleja rupicola.
Clayton J. Antieau, 1984
Jim Riley
H. Tim Gladwin, 1989
H. Tim Gladwin, 1988
Tim Hagan, 2002
G. D. Carr, 2008
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G. D. Carr, 2007
G. D. Carr, 2007
G. D. Carr, 2007
G. D. Carr, 2007
G. D. Carr, 2007
Douglas Houck, 2012
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