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|accepted_name=Castilleja tomentosa
|accepted_authority=A. Gray in W. H. Emory
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound.
|place=2(1): 118. 1859
|year=1859
}}
|common_names=Tomentose paintbrush
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Castilleja;Castilleja tomentosa
|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 tomentosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 579, 662
|treatment_page=page 661
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>or subshrubs, perennial, 1.3–5 dm; from a woody caudex; with a taproot. <b>Stems</b> few to many, ascending to erect, unbranched or branched, with short, leafy axillary shoots, moderately lanate, hairs prostrate to spreading, whitish, unbranched, short, fairly soft, eglandular. <b>Leaves</b> green, linear to narrowly lanceolate, (0.8–)3–5 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, strongly involute, 0–3(–5)-lobed, apex acute to rounded; lobes spreading, linear, short, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> 5–20 × 0.5–2.5 cm; bracts proximally dull brownish to deep greenish purple, distally red, red-orange, or orange, lanceolate or oblong to obovate, deeply 3(–5)-lobed; lobes ascending, linear to lanceolate, long, arising below mid length, central lobe apex rounded to obtuse, others acute. <b>Calyces</b> colored as bracts, (10–)13–19 mm; abaxial and adaxial clefts 4–8(–11) mm, 33–50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 5–7 mm, ca. 25% of calyx length; lobes linear to lanceolate, apex acute. <b>Corollas</b> straight or slightly curved, 12–20 mm; tube 13–15 mm; beak exserted or ± equal to calyx, adaxially pale green, 8–11.5 mm; abaxial lip green or red-violet, inconspicuous, slightly pouched, 1.5–2 mm, ca. 10–20% as long as beak; teeth incurved, pink to pale yellow or deep green, 1 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Oct.
|habitat=Dry Chihuahuan grasslands.
|elevation=1300–1700 m.
|distribution=N.Mex.;Mexico (Sonora).
|discussion=<p>In the United States, <i>Castilleja tomentosa</i> is known from a number of recently discovered populations in and near the southern Animas Valley, Hidalgo County, where it is found in <i>Bouteloua gracilis</i> and <i>Sporobolus airoides</i> grasslands. All known populations are small, and this species should be considered globally endangered. The only recorded Mexican station was the type locality from 1851 near Mabibi in adjacent northern Sonora. A. Eastwood (1909) believed <i>C. tomentosa</i> was a synonym of <i>C. integra</i>, but that species has mostly entire bracts, while the bracts of <i>C. tomentosa</i> are deeply lobed; the two also have different patterns of coloration and pubescence. T. I. Chuang annotated the holotype sheet of <i>C. tomentosa</i> as <i>C. lanata</i>, but <i>C. tomentosa</i> calyces have fairly deep lateral lobes, unlike the emarginate to very shallowly notched lobes of <i>C. lanata</i>.</p>
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name=Castilleja tomentosa
|author=
|authority=A. Gray in W. H. Emory
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orobanchaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Oct.
|habitat=Dry Chihuahuan grasslands.
|elevation=1300–1700 m.
|distribution=N.Mex.;Mexico (Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound.
|publication year=1859
|special status=Conservation concern
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|genus=Castilleja
|species=Castilleja tomentosa
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