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|accepted_name=Castilleja sessiliflora
|accepted_authority=Pursh
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|place=2: 738. 1813
|year=1813
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Castilleja;Castilleja sessiliflora
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orobanchaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Castilleja]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Castilleja sessiliflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 565, 573, 577, 579, 587, 598, 618, 627, 656
|treatment_page=page 657
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, 1–4 dm; from a branching, woody caudex; with a taproot. <b>Stems</b> few to many, ascending to erect, often decumbent at base, unbranched, sometimes branched, hairs spreading, sometimes matted, short to medium length, ± soft, eglandular, often with a layer of minute-glandular hairs, sometimes woolly. <b>Leaves</b> green to purple, or grayish with dust and hairs, linear to narrowly lanceolate, (1–)2–5(–6) cm, not fleshy, margins plane, involute, (0–)3–5-lobed, apex acuminate to acute; lobes divergent, spreading, linear, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> 3–18 × 2.5–6.5 cm; bracts green to purplish throughout, sometimes reddish brown, pink, or lavender throughout, or distally white or pale yellow, sometimes distally dull pink, pink, salmon, orangish, pale pink-orange, buff, or cream, lanceolate, similar to distal leaves, 3(–5)-lobed; lobes spreading, linear-lanceolate, long, arising at or below mid length, apex acute to acuminate, sometimes obtuse. <b>Calyces</b> colored as bracts, sometimes proximally white, 20–40 mm; abaxial and adaxial clefts 12–20 mm, 40–60% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 5–15 mm, 10–25% of calyx length; lobes linear, apex acute to acuminate. <b>Corollas</b> strongly curved distally, 35–55 mm; tube 24–45 mm; abaxial lip, beak, and distal portion of tube exserted; beak adaxially green, yellow, pinkish, purplish, or whitish, 9–15 mm; abaxial lip green, pale green, or purple, protruding, shelflike, 4–8 mm, 50–70% as long as beak; teeth spreading, white, pale yellow, pink, or purple, 3–4 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (Feb–)Mar–Aug(–Oct).
|habitat=Dry mixed grass and shortgrass prairies, prairie sandhills, sandsage plains, sand prairies, rocky or sandy slopes, bluffs, open forests, or desert scrub, limestone, sandstone, gypsum, granite, other bedrock types.
|elevation=0–2300 m.
|distribution=Alta.;Man.;Sask.;Ariz.;Colo.;Ill.;Iowa;Kans.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;N.Dak.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Tex.;Wis.;Wyo.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo León;Tamaulipas).
|discussion=<p><i>Castilleja sessiliflora</i> ranges across the Great Plains from southern Canada to northern Mexico, where it is apparently rare. In Texas and northern Mexico, its range overlaps with the similar <i>C. mexicana</i>. Most populations of <i>C. sessiliflora</i>, especially north of Texas, have white to pale yellow inflorescences; in southwestern Texas they are more variable in color, with pink-purple plants often predominating locally. Those plants with pink-purple inflorescences were named forma purpurina by F. W. Pennell. In the limestone deserts of southern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona, the inflorescences are often a pale pink-orange, but these are intermingled with more typical greenish white plants. Occasional hybrids between <i>C. angustifolia </i>var.<i> dubia</i> and <i>C. sessiliflora</i> are known from northeastern Wyoming.</p>
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name=Castilleja sessiliflora
|author=
|authority=Pursh
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orobanchaceae
|phenology=Flowering (Feb–)Mar–Aug(–Oct).
|habitat=Dry mixed grass and shortgrass prairies, prairie sandhills, sandsage plains, sand prairies, rocky or sandy slopes, bluffs, open forests, or desert scrub, limestone, sandstone, gypsum, granite, other bedrock types.
|elevation=0–2300 m.
|distribution=Alta.;Man.;Sask.;Ariz.;Colo.;Ill.;Iowa;Kans.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;N.Dak.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Tex.;Wis.;Wyo.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo León;Tamaulipas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|publication year=1813
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Castilleja
|species=Castilleja sessiliflora
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