12/31/2023 0 Comments Castilleja plants![]() Flowers: sepals 4, calyx entirely green or more often conspicuously colored distally, usually as in bracts, contrasting with bracts in a few species, radially or bilaterally symmetric, tubular, lobed distally in usually diagnostic patterns: either cleft into 4 subequal lobes (called segments in some floras), or abaxial and adaxial clefts deeper than 2 lateral clefts, or lateral clefts absent and calyx 2-lobed, or lateral clefts slightly deeper than abaxial and adaxial ( C. Pedicels absent or present bracteoles absent. Inflorescences terminal, compact to elongate spikes or secund, sometimes non-secund, racemes bracts present, often brightly colored distally or throughout. Leaves mostly deciduous, cauline, mostly alternate, reduced proximally or forming basal rosettes in a few species petiole absent or present blade fleshy or not, leathery or not, margins entire or pinnately to ± palmately divided. Stems 1–200, strongly decumbent to erect, sometimes prostrate or sprawling, frequently with leafy axillary shoots, not fleshy, glabrous or pubescent, hairs eglandular or stipitate-glandular, unbranched, rarely ± to much-branched or stellate. Herbs or subshrubs, rarely shrubs, annual or perennial, sometimes biennial hemiparasitic, caudex woody or fleshy, taprooted to fibrous-rooted or rhizomatous. ![]()
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