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|accepted_name=Castilleja nivea
|accepted_authority=Pennell & Ownbey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Notul. Nat. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia
|place=227: 2. 1950
|year=1950
}}
|common_names=Snow or snowy paintbrush
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Castilleja;Castilleja nivea
|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 nivea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 568, 571, 635, 648
|treatment_page=page 634
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, 0.5–1.6 dm; from a woody caudex; with a taproot. <b>Stems</b> few to several, erect to ascending, decumbent at base, unbranched except for small, leafy axillary shoots, hairs weakly spreading to appressed, ± matted, especially distally on stem, fairly short and sparse proximally, longer and denser distally, soft, eglandular, becoming woolly, often obscuring surface. <b>Leaves</b> gray with hairs, surface green to purple, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 1–3.8 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, sometimes ± wavy, involute, 0–3-lobed, apex acute; lobes ascending-spreading, linear to narrowly lanceolate, apex acute to obtuse. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2.5–6 × 1–2.5 cm; bracts greenish to pale yellow-green or very pale, dull purplish throughout, lanceolate to oblong, (0–)3(–5)-lobed; lobes usually ascending, linear, medium length to long, arising near mid length, apex acute. <b>Calyces</b> yellow, color mostly obscured by whitish hairs, 15–22 mm; abaxial, adaxial, and lateral clefts (5.5–)7–12 mm, 35–55% of calyx length, often appearing shorter because matted hairs stitch proximal part of clefts shut, all 4 clefts subequal; lobes broadly linear, apex acute. <b>Corollas</b> straight, 18–25 mm; tube 3.5–5.5 mm; subequal to calyx, or beak and sometimes abaxial lip exserted; beak adaxially yellow, 6–8 mm, hairs moderately long, matted on midline, very short-glandular on sides; abaxial lip green, inconspicuous, slightly pouched, 3.5–5.5 mm, 60–90% as long as beak; teeth erect, white or yellow, 0.5–3 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Gravelly slopes and flats, turf and fellfields, mostly alpine.
|elevation=1700–3600 m.
|distribution=Mont.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Castilleja nivea</i> is endemic to alpine habitats in the mountains of northwestern Wyoming and adjacent Montana. It forms occasional hybrids with <i>C. pulchella</i>, which often shares its habitat, as on the Beartooth Plateau in northwestern Wyoming.</p>
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name=Castilleja nivea
|authority=Pennell & Ownbey
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orobanchaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Gravelly slopes and flats, turf and fellfields, mostly alpine.
|elevation=1700–3600 m.
|distribution=Mont.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Notul. Nat. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia
|publication year=1950
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Castilleja
|species=Castilleja nivea
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