Distribution: Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; south-central British Columbia to California, east to the Rocky Mountains.
Habitat: Alkaline marshes and meadows, mostly at low elevations.
Flowers: June-September
Origin: Native
Growth Duration: Annual, Biennial
Conservation Status: Not of concern
Annual, the stem erect, unbranched, glandular-villous, 3-8 dm. tall.
Leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate, entire, glandular-pubescent.
Inflorescence becoming greatly elongate, the flowers well-spaced; bracts lanceolate, entire, glandular, much longer than the flowers, the upper third of the upper ones scarlet; calyx 15-20 mm. long, deeply cleft above and below, its primary lobes again divided into acute, linear segments; corolla yellowish, not much longer than the calyx, the upper lip short and blunt and the lower lip inconspicuous; stamens 4.
Capsule.
Publication: Bot. California [W.H.Brewer] i. 573. 1876.
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var. exilis – seep paintbrush
Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; south-central British Columbia to California, east to the Rocky Mountains.
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Castilleja minor in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database
WA Flora Checklist: Castilleja minor checklist entry
OregonFlora: Castilleja minor information
E-Flora BC: Castilleja minor atlas page
CalPhotos: Castilleja minor photos
