Distribution: Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to Nevada, east to Alberta, Montana, and Wyoming.
Habitat: Open areas, lower valleys to subalpine meadows.
Flowers: April-August
Origin: Native
Growth Duration: Perennial
Conservation Status: Review Group 2 in Washington (WANHP)
Pollination: Bumblebees, bees, hummingbirds
Perennial herbs, the stems clustered, erect, unbranched, 1-6 dm. tall, with soft, sticky hairs.
Leaves alternate, viscid-villous, the lower ones linear-lanceolate, entire; upper leaves broader, with 1-3 pair of divergent lobes above the middle; bracts broader than the leaves, oblong, obtuse, entire or with 1-2 pairs of short lateral lobes, pale yellow or purplish.
Inflorescence straight and upright, elongate, the flowers remote and hidden by the overlapping bracts; calyx 20-30 mm. long, deeply and equally cleft above and below, its primary lobes broad and rounded, usually entire; corolla about equal to the calyx, its lower lip prominent, the upper lip densely glandular-puberulent; stamens 4; ovary superior.
Capsule.
Publication: Botanical Gazette 25(4): 267-268. 1898.
Castilleja lutea A. Heller
Castilleja pallida (L.) Spreng. var. camporum Greenm.
Castilleja pannosa Eastw.
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Castilleja cusickii in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.
WA Flora Checklist: Castilleja cusickii checklist entry.
OregonFlora: Castilleja cusickii information.
E-Flora BC: Castilleja cusickii atlas page.
CalPhotos: Castilleja cusickii photos.
USDA Plants: Castilleja cusickii information.
