Blooms: Late April - August
Habit: herb
Duration: perennial
Origin: Native
Distribution: Both sides of the Cascades, British Columbia to Oregon, east to Montana
Habitat: Grassy slopes and forest openings, from sea level to moderate elevations in the mountains

Species Description:

General: Perennial, the stems mostly unbranched, clustered, erect or ascending from a woody base, 2-6 dm. tall, finely villous.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, lanceolate or broader, finely villous, the lower ones entire and reduced; upper leaves with 1-2 pairs of lateral lobes, these much narrower than the mid-blade.
Flowers: Inflorescence showy, short and broad, becoming elongate, scarlet or red, occasionally yellow; bracts broad and deeply 3- to 5-lobed; calyx 15-30 mm. long, deeply cleft above and below, its primary lobes again divided into 2 segments; corolla 20-40 mm. long, its puberulent upper lip about equaling the tube, the lower lip only 1/5 as long, dark green, thickened; stamens 4.
Fruits: Capsule.

Subspecies & Varieties:

Castilleja hispida Benth.

Treated in Flora of the PNW as:

PNW Herbaria Specimens: View list of Castilleja hispida specimens in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.

WTU Herbarium Specimens: View list of Castilleja hispida specimens in the WTU Herbarium database.

Washington Flora Checklist: Castilleja hispida treatment.

E-Flora BC: Castilleja hispida atlas page.

CalPhotos: Castilleja hispida images.

USDA Plants Database: Castilleja hispida.