| Castilleja elegans Malte | |||
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| Family | Scrophulariaceae — APG family: Orobanchaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Castilleja pallida subsp. elegans (Malte) Pennell, Castilleja pallida var. mexiae (Pennell) Boiv., Castilleja pallida var. elegans (Malte) Boiv., Castilleja pallida subsp. mexiae Pennell | ||
| Description | Stems pubescent, especially above, several, ascending; leaves lanceolate, at- tenuate to caudate, acute, the upper often laciniate; inflorescence compact, lanate; bracts ovate to oblong-ovate, laciniate, violet to reddish; corolla about 25 mm long, pubescent, the upper lip acute, yellowish-green with purple margin, the lower purple, about half as long as the upper; capsule glabrous, mucronate. | ||
| Ecology | Stony slopes in the mountains, to at least 1,400 meters. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | (See color section.) |
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.