| Castilleja caudata (Pennell) Rebr. | |||
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| Family | Scrophulariaceae — APG family: Orobanchaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Castilleja pallida typica, Castilleja pallida subsp. caudata Pennell, Castilleja pallida var. caudata (Pennell) Boiv. | ||
| Description | Stems single or few together, simple or branched above, erect, pubescent; leaves alternate, lanceolate, attenuate-caudate to nearly linear, the upper broader than the lower, short-pubescent; inflorescence elongated, more or less woolly-pubescent, with often yellowish hairs; bracts greenish-yellow, mostly entire, or the upper laciniate; calyx greenish-yellow, white-pubescent or yellowish-pubescent; corolla not much longer than calyx, the upper lip greenish, the lower yellowish. | ||
| Ecology | Along streams, in meadows, in the mountains to at least 1,200 meters. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | In var. auricoma (Pennell) Hult. [C. pallida subsp. auricoma Pennell, C. pallida subsp. Mexiae var. auricoma (Pennell) Boiv.], the inflorescence is yellowish and long-pubescent. |
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.