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|accepted_name=Castilleja lineata
|accepted_authority=Greene
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Pittonia
|place=4: 151. 1900
|year=1900
}}
|common_names=Linear-lobed or lineated paintbrush
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Castilleja;Castilleja lineata
|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 lineata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 571, 575, 621
|treatment_page=page 623
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, 1–4 dm; from a woody caudex; with a taproot. <b>Stems</b> few to many, erect or strongly ascending, unbranched except for small, leafy axillary shoots, hairs spreading-reflexed to ± appressed, matted, long, soft, with much shorter stipitate-glandular ones, white-woolly. <b>Leaves</b> green, linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly lanceolate, 1.3–5 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, sometimes wavy, involute, 3–7-lobed, apex acute; lobes divergent, spreading-ascending, linear, apex acute to acuminate. <b>Inflorescences</b> 5–22 × 1–4.5 cm; bracts green to yellow-green throughout, or proximally green to yellow-green, distally yellow to sometimes pale yellow-orange, narrowly lanceolate to narrowly oblong or broadly lanceolate, 3(–7)-lobed; lobes ascending to spreading, linear to oblong, medium length to long, arising near or below mid length, central lobe apex rounded to obtuse, lateral ones acute. <b>Calyces</b> colored as bracts, 15–20 mm; abaxial and adaxial clefts 5.5–8 mm, 30–50% of calyx length, ± deeper than laterals, sometimes appearing subequal in pressed specimens, lateral 5–6 mm, ca. 33% of calyx length; lobes linear to narrowly lanceolate, sometimes expanded towards apices, apex acute. <b>Corollas</b> straight or slightly curved, 14–22 mm; tube 7–14 mm; beak tip barely exserted from calyx; beak adaxially greenish, 4–7 mm; abaxial lip green to yellow, reduced, 1–4 mm, usually less than 67% as long as beak; teeth erect, white to yellow, 1–2.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Dry to moist slopes and meadows, shores, open conifer forests, montane to alpine.
|elevation=2100–3800 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;N.Mex.
|discussion=<p><i>Castilleja lineata</i> is restricted to the mountains of northeastern Arizona, southern Colorado, and northwestern New Mexico. It is uncommon throughout its range and is without apparent close relatives. The Navajo used <i>C. lineata</i> as a medicinal plant and for its sweet nectar (D. E. Moerman 1998).</p>
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name=Castilleja lineata
|author=
|authority=Greene
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orobanchaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Dry to moist slopes and meadows, shores, open conifer forests, montane to alpine.
|elevation=2100–3800 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;N.Mex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Pittonia
|publication year=1900
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Castilleja
|species=Castilleja lineata
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