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|accepted_name=Castilleja mollis
|accepted_authority=Pennell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia
|place=99: 185. 1947
|year=1947
}}
|common_names=Soft-leaved paintbrush
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
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|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Castilleja;Castilleja mollis
|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 mollis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 567, 572, 584
|treatment_page=page 632
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>or subshrubs, perennial, 3–4 dm; from a woody caudex; with woody roots. <b>Stems</b> few to several, ± prostrate, sometimes ascending, much-branched, with dense, matlike growth form, often with short, leafy axillary shoots, hairs dense, tangled, short to long, fairly stiff, branched, sometimes glandular, white-woolly. <b>Leaves</b> green to deep purple, narrowly elliptic to oblong, ovate, or obovate, 1–3 cm, ± fleshy, margins plane or ± wavy, flat, 0-lobed, apex rounded, rarely acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> usually erect, 2.5–8 × 1.5–4 cm; bracts proximally greenish, distally pale to bright yellow, sometimes brownish orange, sometimes with brownish orange medial band, oblong, elliptic, or obovate, ± cup-shaped, ± fleshy, 0–3-lobed; lobes erect, oblong, short, arising near tip, central lobe apex rounded to truncate, sometimes crenate or with obtuse teeth, lateral ones obtuse. <b>Calyces</b> colored as bracts, lacking orange central band, 16–23 mm; abaxial clefts 9.5–14 mm, adaxial 8 mm, abaxial 50–67% of calyx length, adaxial 35–45% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 4.5–5 mm, 20–25% of calyx length; lobes oblong to triangular, abaxials sometimes wider than adaxials, apex acute to rounded, inner surface glabrous. <b>Corollas</b> straight, 17–26 mm; tube 12–13 mm; beak often slightly exserted, adaxially green to yellow-green, 11–13 mm; abaxial lip green, reduced, 1.5–3.5 mm, 10–20% as long as beak; teeth incurved, reduced, green, 0.5–1 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Aug.
|habitat=Sandy openings in coastal scrub, thin sandy soils over limestone terraces, north- or northwest-facing sandy bluffs, dunes.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p><i>Castilleja mollis</i> is federally listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of the United States. It is endemic to the coastal terraces of the northern portion of Santa <i>Rosa</i> Island, Santa Barbara County, in the northern Channel Islands of southern California. It is recorded historically from San Miguel Island. Much of the available low-elevation habitat on Santa <i>Rosa</i> Island was degraded by trampling and grazing of introduced ungulates, which also resulted in the apparent loss of a natural population on the western end of San Miguel Island, last seen in the 1930s and now believed extirpated. Reports of <i>C. mollis</i> from the Oso Flaco Lake area of the mainland, in San Luis Obispo County, are based on populations of <i>C. affinis </i>var.<i> contentiosa</i>. <i>Castilleja mollis</i> is most closely related to <i>C. latifolia</i> of the central California coast and a sister species to the north, <i>C. mendocinensis</i>.</p>
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name=Castilleja mollis
|author=
|authority=Pennell
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
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|family=Orobanchaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Aug.
|habitat=Sandy openings in coastal scrub, thin sandy soils over limestone terraces, north- or northwest-facing sandy bluffs, dunes.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia
|publication year=1947
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
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|genus=Castilleja
|species=Castilleja mollis
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