Identificaciones de markegger

The orangish red bracts and calyces, linear lobes (<2 mm wide) of bracts and leaves, acuminate ultimate calyx lobes, and stems and leaves that are glabrate or if hairy then not conspicuously so with stiff spreading hairs, distinguish Castilleja covilleana from the similar Castilleja angustifolia and Castilleja chromosa. This site lies along the road near the top of the Bogus Basin Ski Area on Shafer Butte, Boise County, Idaho.

Castilleja miniata is most abundant in moist mountain meadows. This site lies in towards the head of the South Fork of Teton Creek to the northwest of Buck Mountain Pass, Bridger Teton National Forest, Teton County, Wyoming.

These views of the flowering spike reveal the showy red flower bracts and calyces. The yellow and red upper corolla lobe protrudes well above the lower three green corolla lobes, which are positioned on the lower side of the corolla tube and between the two main lateral calyx lobes. The leaves are simple in Castilleja miniata. This site lies on the east side of the Bridger Range in the meadow at the east base of Hardscrabble Peak near the Shaft House trailhead, Gallatin County, Montana.

A meadow population of Castilleja miniata with salmon to orangish red inflorescence bracts and calyces. This meadow occurs on a loose gravelly mix that is highly porous. This site lies along the trail from the Norton Lakes trailhead to Baker Lake, Smokey Mountains, Blaine County, Idaho.

2nd & 3rd photos. Castilleja miniata and Penstemon attenuatus both abundant in this meadow.