Castilleja scabrida

Eastwood

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 29: 523. 1902.

Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 654. Mentioned on page 576, 622, 655.

Herbs, perennial, 0.7–1.5 (–2.2) dm; from a woody caudex; with a taproot or stout, branched roots. Stems several, decumbent, often sprawling, distally ascending, unbranched unless injured, rarely with small, leafy axillary shoots, hairs spreading, whitish, short, ± stiff, eglandular. Leaves gray-green, sometimes green or reddish purple, reduced and scalelike on proximal 10–25% of stem, linear, lanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, 1.5–4 (–5) cm, not fleshy, margins plane, flat or involute, 0–3 (–5) -lobed, apex acute; lobes spreading or spreading-ascending, linear or lanceolate, apex acute. Inflorescences 2.5–10 × 2.5–5 cm; bracts proximally green to deep greenish purple, distally bright red, sometimes brick-red or orange-red, linear to lanceolate, 3–5 (–7) -lobed; lobes spreading, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, sometimes expanded near tip, long, arising near base and more distally, apex acute to obtuse. Calyces colored as bracts, 18–33 mm; abaxial clefts 6–12 mm, adaxial 8–15 mm, clefts 40–60% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 2–6 mm, 15–25% of calyx length; lobes lanceolate or narrowly triangular, apex acute to acuminate. Corollas straight or slightly curved, 25–40 (–45) mm; tube 11–24 mm; beak exserted, adaxially green to yellow, 10–17 (–20) mm; abaxial lip green, reduced, visible through front cleft, 1.5–2.5 mm, 10–15% as long as beak; teeth incurved, green, 0.5–1 mm. 2n = 24.

Distribution

Ariz., Colo., N.Mex., Nev., Utah

Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

Castilleja scabrida consists of two varieties distinguished by range and habitat differences, as well as by the morphological characters of the key. Both varieties are often confused with the similar and broadly sympatric C. chromosa but can be differentiated from the latter most easily by the presence of scalelike vestigial leaves on the proximal stems of C. scabrida.

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Leaf lobes lanceolate, sometimes linear-lanceolate; stems and leaves appearing grayish; substrates sandstone or clay. Castilleja scabrida var. scabrida
1 Leaf lobes linear; stems and leaves greenish, rarely reddish purple to grayish green; substrates calcareous. Castilleja scabrida var. barnebyana

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

... more about "Castilleja scabrida"
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
acute +  and acuminate +
J. Mark Egger +, Peter F. Zika +, Barbara L. Wilson +, Richard E. Brainerd +  and Nick Otting +
Eastwood +
1.7 cm17 mm <br />0.017 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.7 cm17 mm <br />0.017 m <br />) +
not +, leathery +  and fleshy +
orange-red;brick-red;bright red;proximally green;deep greenish purple +
3-5(-7)-lobed +, linear +  and lanceolate +
2-lobed +, lobed +  and tubular +
1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br /> (3.3 cm33 mm <br />0.033 m <br />) +
taprooted;fibrous-rooted or rhizomatous +
fleshy +  and woody +
lateral +  and deeper +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (4.5 cm45 mm <br />0.045 m <br />) +
purple +, pink +, red +, orange +, yellow +, white +, green +  and pale greenish +
curved +  and straight +
divided +  and tubular +
2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
Ariz. +, Colo. +, N.Mex. +, Nev. +  and Utah +
spreading-hairy +  and glabrous +
2 +  and 1 +
indehiscent +, septicidal +, loculicidal +  and dehiscence +
stipitate-glandular +
2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
axillary +  and terminal +
2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
spiral +, whorled +, alternate +  and opposite +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
reddish purple +, green +  and gray-green +
deciduous +
basal +  and cauline +
elliptic;lanceolate;elliptic;lanceolate;linear;scale-like +
reduced +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
not fleshy +
arising +, spreading +  and spreading-ascending +
3 (?) +, 2 (?) +  and 4 (?) +
triangular +, lanceolate +  and linear-lanceolate +
expanded +
0-3(-5)-lobed +, involute +, flat +  and plane +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
campylotropous-like +
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club +
stramineous +
20 +  and 100 +
trapezoidal +, oblong-ovoid +, pyramidal +  and ovoid +
non-secund +  and secund +
elongate +
subequal +
sprawling +  and decumbent +
aerial +  and subterranean +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
not fleshy +
2-lobed +  and entire +
Euchroma +  and Oncorhynchus +
Castilleja scabrida +
Castilleja +
species +
shallow;deep +
reduced +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br /> (2.4 cm24 mm <br />0.024 m <br />) +