Castilleja

***Castilleja***, commonly known as **Indian paintbrush** or **prairie-fire**, is a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas from Alaska south to the Andes, northern Asia, and one species as far west as the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia.

## Symbolism

_Castilleja linariifolia_ is the state flower of Wyoming.

## Selected species

||_Castilleja affinis_|Coast Indian paintbrush|
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||_Castilleja ambigua_|Paintbrush owl's clover|
||_Castilleja angustifolia_|Northwestern Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja annua_|Annual Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja applegatei_|Applegate's Indian paintbrush, wavyleaf Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja aquariensis_|Aquarius Plateau Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja arachnoidea_|Cobwebby Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja arvensis_||
||_Castilleja attenuata_|Narrowleaf owl's clover|
||_Castilleja brevistyla_||
||_Castilleja campestris_|vernal pool Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja caudata_|Port Clarence Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja cervina_|Deer Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja christii_|Christ's Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja chromosa_|Desert Indian paintbrush, desert paintbrush|
||_Castilleja cinerea_|Ashgray Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja coccinea_|Scarlet Indian paintbrush, Scarlet painted-cup|
||_Castilleja cusickii_|Cusick's Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja densiflora_||
||_Castilleja ecuadorensis_||
||_Castilleja elegans_|Elegant Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja elmeri_|Elmer's Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja exserta_|Purple owl's clover, purple Indian paintbrush, exserted Indian paintbrush, _escobita_, formerly in _Orthocarpus_|
||_Castilleja foliolosa_|Texas Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja fruticosa_||
||_Castilleja fulva_|Elko Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja grisea_||
||_Castilleja guadalupensis_|(extinct)|
||_Castilleja hispida_|Harsh Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja hyetophila_|Coastal red Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja hyperborea_|Northern Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja indivisa_|Entireleaf Indian paintbrush, Texas paintbrush|
||_Castilleja integra_|Wholeleaf Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja kaibabensis_|Kaibab Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja kerryana_||
||_Castilleja lacera_||
||_Castilleja lanata_|Sierra woolly Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja lasiorhyncha_||
||_Castilleja latifolia_||
||_Castilleja lauta_|Rosy Paintbrush|
||_Castilleja lemmonii_|Lemmon's Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja levisecta_|Golden paintbrush|
||_Castilleja linariifolia_|Narrowleaf Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja lineariiloba_||
||_Castilleja lutescens_|Stiff yellow Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja mendocinensis_||
||_Castilleja miniata_|Greater red Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja minor_|Smallflower Indian paintbrush, lesser Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja mollis_|Softleaf Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja mutis_||
||_Castilleja nana_|Alpine paintbrush|
||_Castilleja neglecta_|Tiburon Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja nubigena_||
||_Castilleja occidentalis_|Western Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja pallescens_|Pallid Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja pallida var. lapponica_|Boreal Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja paramensis_||
||_Castilleja parviflora_|Small-flowered Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja parvula_||
||_Castilleja peirsonii_|Peirson's paintbrush|
||_Castilleja pilosa_||
||_Castilleja praeterita_||
||_Castilleja pruinosa_||
||_Castilleja pumila_|Lancetilla del Páramo|
||_Castilleja purpurea_||
||_Castilleja raupii_|Raup's Indian paintbrush, Raup's painted-cup|
||_Castilleja rhexiifolia_|_Rhexia_-leaf Indian paintbrush, splitleaf Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja rubicundula_|Cream sacs|
||_Castilleja rupicola_|Cliff Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja salsuginosa_|Monte Neva Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja schizotricha_||
||_Castilleja septentrionalis_|Labrador Indian paintbrush, northern paintbrush|
||_Castilleja sessiliflora_|Downy Indian paintbrush, downy paintbrush|
||_Castilleja socorrensis_||
||_Castilleja subinclusa_||
||_Castilleja suksdorfii_|Suksdorf's Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja sulphurea_|Sulphur Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja tenuis_|Hairy owl's clover|
||_Castilleja thompsonii_|Thompson's Indian paintbrush|
||_Castilleja wightii_|Wight's paintbrush|
||_Castilleja unalaschcensis_|Alaska Indian paintbrush|

## Other websites

- Native Plant Information Network: Listing of species in the Castilleja genus.
- Jepson Manual - taxonomic description of the genus.