Castilleja haydenii

(A. Gray) Cockerell

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 17: 37. 1890.

Common names: Hayden’s paintbrush
Endemic
Basionym: Castilleja pallida var. haydenii A. Gray in A. Gray et al. Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2(1): 297. 1878
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 612. Mentioned on page 576.

Herbs, perennial, 0.7–2 dm; from a woody caudex; with a taproot. Stems few-to-many, spreading to ascending, unbranched except for short, leafy shoots in axils of leaves, glabrate to distally puberulent, hairs sparse to dense, spreading, ± short, soft, sometimes stipitate-glandular. Leaves green to purple, linear or narrowly lanceolate to narrowly oblong, (1.1–) 2–8 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, involute, (0–) 3–7 (–9) -lobed, apex acute to obtuse; lobes spreading, linear to narrowly lanceolate, apex acuminate. Inflorescences 2.5–5.5 × 1.5–2.5 cm; bracts rose-purple, magenta, lilac, or crimson throughout, or proximally greenish to dull purplish, distally as above, lanceolate to ovate or broadly elliptic, 3–7 (–13) -lobed; lobes spreading to erect, linear to narrowly lanceolate, long or short, proximal arising below mid length, central lobe apex rounded to acute, lateral ones acute. Calyces colored as bracts, 12–26 mm; abaxial and adaxial clefts 5–10 mm, 50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 0.2–6 mm, 25% of calyx length; lobes triangular, apex acute. Corollas straight or slightly curved, 20–25 mm; tube 13–15 mm; beak exserted, sometimes part of abaxial lip equal to or exceeding calyx; beak adaxially green, 6–8 mm; abaxial lip greenish at base, becoming white to rose-pink on apices, reduced, slightly pouched, 2–3 mm, 33–50% as long as beak; teeth ascending, white, pink, or green, 1–2.2 mm. 2n = 24.


Phenology: Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat: Rocky slopes, meadows, fellfields, alpine.
Elevation: 3200–4300 m.

Discussion

Castilleja haydenii is endemic to high-elevation slopes in the Rocky Mountains of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. It is known in Utah from a single collection from high elevations in the La Sal Mountains. Reports of this species elsewhere are usually attributable to C. rhexiifolia. Its affinities are uncertain. Some features are shared with C. rhexiifolia, but in other ways it resembles species such as C. lemmonii of the Sierra Nevada. Plants in the northwestern portions of its range tend to have less divided leaves. Castilleja haydenii occasionally hybridizes with C. occidentalis where the two commingle in the lower alpine zone.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Castilleja haydenii"
0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
white +  and rose-pink +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
acute +, acuminate +  and obtuse +
J. Mark Egger +, Peter F. Zika +, Barbara L. Wilson +, Richard E. Brainerd +  and Nick Otting +
(A. Gray) Cockerell +
Castilleja pallida var. haydenii +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
not +, leathery +  and fleshy +
proximally greenish;dull purplish +
3-7(-13)-lobed +, lanceolate +  and ovate or broadly elliptic +
2-lobed +, lobed +  and tubular +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (2.6 cm26 mm <br />0.026 m <br />) +
taprooted;fibrous-rooted or rhizomatous +
fleshy +  and woody +
Hayden’s paintbrush +
purple +, pink +, red +, orange +, yellow +, white +, green +  and pale greenish +
curved +  and straight +
divided +  and tubular +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
Colo. +, N.Mex. +  and Utah. +
3200–4300 m. +
spreading-hairy +  and glabrous +
2 +  and 1 +
indehiscent +, septicidal +, loculicidal +  and dehiscence +
Rocky slopes, meadows, fellfields, alpine. +
much-branched +, unbranched +  and eglandular +
sparse +  and dense +
stipitate-glandular +
2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> (5.5 cm55 mm <br />0.055 m <br />) +
axillary +  and terminal +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
spiral +, whorled +, alternate +  and opposite +
1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
green +  and purple +
deciduous +
basal +  and cauline +
narrowly lanceolate;narrowly oblong +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br />) +
not fleshy +
lateral +  and mid +
spreading +  and erect +
3 (?) +, 2 (?) +  and 4 (?) +
triangular +, linear +  and narrowly lanceolate +
subequal +
(0-)3-7(-9)-lobed +  and plane +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
campylotropous-like +
Flowering Jul–Sep. +
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club +
stramineous +
20 +  and 100 +
trapezoidal +, oblong-ovoid +, pyramidal +  and ovoid +
non-secund +  and secund +
elongate +
subequal +
sprawling +  and prostrate +
aerial +  and subterranean +
spreading +  and ascending +
glabrate +  and distally puberulent +
not fleshy +
2-lobed +  and entire +
Euchroma +  and Oncorhynchus +
Castilleja haydenii +
Castilleja +
species +
green +, pink +  and white +
shallow;deep +
reduced +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.22 cm2.2 mm <br />0.0022 m <br />) +
1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +