| Castilleja unalaschcensis (Cham. & Schlecht.) Malte | |||
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| Family | Scrophulariaceae — APG family: Orobanchaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Castilleja pallida var. unalaschcensis Cham. & Schlecht., Castilleja unalaschcensis subsp. transnivalis Pennell | ||
| Description | Stems several, glabrate below, villous above, from short, stout, scaly, many-head- ed caudex; basal leaves lacking; stem leaves ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or lanceolate, somewhat acute, pubescent on both sides, 3- to 5-nerved; bracts ovate, the lower- most entire, the others with long, blunt or somewhat acute lobes, yellowish or greenish-yellow; calyx lobes obtuse or rounded; lower lip of corolla small, mostly entire, green, upper lip yellow in margin. | ||
| Ecology | Subalpine meadows. Common on the southwestern coast. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | The closely related C. sulphiirea Rydb. occurs in the southern Rocky Mountains. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.