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|accepted_name=Castilleja chromosa
|accepted_authority=A. Nelson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=26: 245. 1899
|year=1899
}}
|common_names=Desert paintbrush
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Castilleja ewanii
|authority=Eastwood
|rank=species
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|name=C. martini subsp. ewanii
|authority=(Eastwood) Munz
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=C. martini var. ewanii
|authority=(Eastwood) N. H. Holmgren
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Castilleja;Castilleja chromosa
|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 chromosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 567, 576, 586, 587, 588, 594, 596, 608, 612, 622, 633, 643, 654, 655
|treatment_page=page 595
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> sometimes subshrubs, perennial, 1.5–3.5(–4.5) dm; from a woody caudex; with a taproot. <b>Stems</b> several to many, ascending to erect, often grayish, unbranched, rarely branched, sometimes with short, leafy axillary branches, hairs spreading-erect, long, stiff, eglandular, sometimes also with shorter, stipitate-glandular ones. <b>Leaves</b> gray-green, linear, lanceolate, or oblanceolate, sometimes broadly lanceolate, (1.5–)2.5–6(–7) cm, not fleshy, margins plane, involute, (0–)3–5(–7)-lobed, sometimes with secondary lobes, apex acuminate to obtuse; lobes spreading, linear, apex acuminate. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2.5–15 (much longer in fruit) × 1.5–5.5 cm; bracts proximally greenish to dull purplish, distally bright red to scarlet or orange-red, rarely yellowish to dull orange or pink, narrowly to broadly linear or lanceolate, narrowly ovate, or oblong-lanceolate, (0–)3–7-lobed, rarely with secondary lobes; lobes spreading, linear to oblong, sometimes oblanceolate, often expanded near tip, long, proximal lobes arising below mid length, apex rounded or obtuse to sometimes acute. <b>Calyces</b> colored as bracts, sometimes with broad yellow band below colored lobe apices, (17–)20–27 mm; abaxial clefts 4–10 mm, adaxial 6–12 mm, abaxial ca. 30% of calyx length, adaxial ca. 40% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 1–4 mm, ca. 15% of calyx length; lobes oblong or ovate to narrowly triangular or lanceolate, apex obtuse to rounded. <b>Corollas</b> straight or ± curved, 18–35(–40) mm; tube 8–15 mm; beak short- or long-exserted, adaxially green to yellow-green, (9–)10–18 mm; abaxial lip deep green, reduced, thickened, included to exserted, 2–3 mm, ca. 20% as long as beak; teeth incurved, deep green, 0.5–1 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24, 48.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Dry sagebrush slopes and flats, pinyon-juniper stands, blackbrush, open yellow pine forests.
|elevation=500–3200 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Utah;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Castilleja chromosa</i> is sometimes confused with 3b. <i>C. angustifolia </i>var.<i> dubia</i> (see discussion there). <i>Castilleja chromosa</i> retains its distinctive morphology across its wide range and is a characteristic species of much of the southwestern United States. Where it overlaps with <i>C. angustifolia</i>, the two are distinguished by inflorescence color and width and by the lengths of the calyx, corolla, and corolla beak. In the broad region of their sympatry, there is little evidence of intergradation, except in a few sites in Elko County, <i>Nevada</i>, and in southern Wyoming. Throughout southern Idaho and northeastern <i>Nevada</i> the range of the two overlap with little or no intergradation. At high elevations in Montrose County, Colorado, <i>C. chromosa</i> has narrower leaves and a longer and silkier pubescence, especially in the inflorescence. Apparent hybrids between <i>C. chromosa</i> and <i>C. flava </i>var.<i> rustica</i> are known from Custer County, Idaho, and hybrids with <i>C. linariifolia</i> are known from Montrose County, Colorado.</p>
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name=Castilleja chromosa
|authority=A. Nelson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Castilleja ewanii;C. martini subsp. ewanii;C. martini var. ewanii
|basionyms=
|family=Orobanchaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Dry sagebrush slopes and flats, pinyon-juniper stands, blackbrush, open yellow pine forests.
|elevation=500–3200 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1899
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V17/V17_1043.xml
|genus=Castilleja
|species=Castilleja chromosa
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