LEMON PAINTBRUSH
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Castilleja purpurea (Nutt. ) G. Don var. citrina (Pennell ) Shinners
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| Barber County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 4-16 inches |
| Family: Orobanchaceae - Broomrape Family |
| Flowering Period: April, May, June |
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| Stems: | | Erect or ascending, clustered, simple to few-branched, woolly-hairy. | | Leaves: | | Alternate, simple, sessile, linear to lanceolate, 1.25 to 2.5 inches long, with 1-3 pairs of narrow lateral lobes. | | Inflorescences: | | Spikes, dense, bright yellow or greenish yellow, terminal. | | Flowers: | | Subtended by prominent, leafy bracts, 1 or 2 pairs of narrow lobes at sides, tips lemon yellow; calyces 1 to 1 1/3 inches long, cleft into lobes that terminate in linear-lanceolate segments, concealing corollas; corollas 2-lipped, upper lip folded, longer than lower lip, deep green with yellow margins, lower lip widely flaring, green with yellow tip; stamens 4, in 2 pairs. | | Fruits: | | Capsules, egg-shaped, woody; seeds numerous, small, angular. | | Habitat: | | Dry rocky or sandy bluffs and prairie hills. | | Distribution: | | Principally southwest 1/4 of Kansas. | | Comments: | | Lemon paintbrush is partially parasitic on the roots of other plants. |
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