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Desert Indian Paintbrush
Castilleja chromosa
36.4627, -114.524
Field Notes
Description:
Looks like a paintbrush made of ragged leaves that has been dipped in red-orange paint.
4-16" tall with short, narrow and hairy leaves extending from the base and sometmes up stalk.
Blooms from April to August
Habitat:
Commonly found on dry and rocky slopes of the Mojave Desert in sagebrush and shadscale scrub, joshua tree and pinyon-juniper woodland to 8000'.
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedMarch 25, 2011
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