Illustrated
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 630. Mentioned on page 627, 631.

Herbs 7.2 dm. Stems: hairs fairly short, soft, moderately to densely stipitate-glandular. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, soft, margins plane. Bracts distally red, linear to linear-lanceolate, apex acuminate. Calyces 13–21 mm; abaxial clefts 9–11 mm, adaxial 6–8 mm, clefts 40–75% of calyx length, lateral 3–4 mm, 15–25% of calyx length; lobes linear, apex acuminate. Corollas 14–21 (–30) mm; beak included to more often partially exserted from calyces, adaxially yellow to greenish, 5–8 mm; abaxial lip red to reddish purple.


Phenology: Flowering Apr–Sep.
Habitat: Wet, sometimes alkaline sites, including marshes, hot springs, seeps, stream banks.
Elevation: 700–2500 m.

Distribution

Ariz., N.Mex., Mexico (Chihuahua), Mexico (Sonora)

Discussion

Variety minor is found in central and southeastern Arizona and adjacent New Mexico southward into northern Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico. Compared to similar var. exilis, plants of var. minor tend to be more slender, with narrower, softer-textured, linear-acuminate leaves, red-purple abaxial corolla lips, and with less dense and less conspicuous stem pubescence.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"dm" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.

0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
red +  and reddish purple +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
acuminate +
J. Mark Egger +, Peter F. Zika +, Barbara L. Wilson +, Richard E. Brainerd +  and Nick Otting +
(A. Gray) A. Gray in W. H. Brewer et al. +
Castilleja affinis var. minor +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
not +, leathery +  and fleshy +
linear +  and linear-lanceolate +
2.7 cm27 mm <br />0.027 m <br /> (2.8 cm28 mm <br />0.028 m <br />) +
yellowish green +  and green +
2-lobed +, lobed +  and tubular +
1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br /> (2.1 cm21 mm <br />0.021 m <br />) +
taprooted;fibrous-rooted or rhizomatous +
fleshy +  and woody +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
2.1 cm21 mm <br />0.021 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
purple +, pink +, red +, orange +, yellow +, white +, green +  and pale greenish +
colored +, green +, red-violet +, red +, deep +, white +  and yellow +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
divided +  and tubular +
1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br /> (2.1 cm21 mm <br />0.021 m <br />) +
Ariz. +, N.Mex. +, Mexico (Chihuahua) +  and Mexico (Sonora) +
700–2500 m. +
spreading-hairy +  and glabrous +
2 +  and 1 +
indehiscent +, septicidal +, loculicidal +  and dehiscence +
Wet, sometimes alkaline sites, including marshes, hot springs, seeps, stream banks. +
sparse +  and dense +
stipitate-glandular +
short to long +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
axillary +  and terminal +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
spiral +, whorled +, alternate +  and opposite +
purple +  and more or less gray +
deciduous +
basal +  and cauline +
linear-lanceolate;linear +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
not fleshy +
3 (?) +, 2 (?) +  and 4 (?) +
linear +  and narrowly triangular or narrowly lanceolate +
subequal +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
campylotropous-like +
Flowering Apr–Sep. +
Bot. California +
stramineous +
20 +  and 100 +
trapezoidal +, oblong-ovoid +, pyramidal +  and ovoid +
Illustrated +
non-secund +  and secund +
elongate +
subequal +
branched +  and unbranched +
sprawling +  and prostrate +
aerial +  and subterranean +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
not fleshy +
2-lobed +  and entire +
Euchroma +  and Oncorhynchus +
Castilleja minor var. minor +
Castilleja minor +
variety +
red-purple +, red +, yellow +, white +  and green +
shallow;deep +
spreading +  and strongly incurved +
reduced +
0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br /> (1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br />) +