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|accepted_name=Castilleja thompsonii
|accepted_authority=Pennell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia
|place=99: 178. 1947
|year=1947
}}
|common_names=Thompson’s paintbrush
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Castilleja villicaulis
|authority=Pennell & Ownbey
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Castilleja;Castilleja thompsonii
|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 thompsonii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 574, 605, 662
|treatment_page=page 661
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, 0.8–4 dm; from a woody caudex; with a taproot. <b>Stems</b> few to many, erect or ascending, unbranched or branched, hairs spreading, long, stiff, sometimes soft (especially in higher elevations), eglandular, mixed with shorter stipitate-glandular ones. <b>Leaves</b> green to purple or reddish brown, linear to narrowly oblong or linear-lanceolate, 1.4–7.4 cm, not fleshy, margins plane to ± wavy, involute or flat, 3(–7)-lobed, apex acuminate; lobes spreading-ascending, linear, short to long moving up leaf axis, apex acute or obtuse. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2.5–14 × 1–4 cm; bracts greenish to pale yellow or reddish brown throughout, or proximally greenish to dull reddish purple, or ruddy brown, distally greenish to yellow-green or yellow, often aging dull reddish to dull purplish, lanceolate to oblong to ovate, 3–5(–9)-lobed; lobes spreading to ascending, linear to narrowly lanceolate, long, proximal lobes arising below mid length, apex acute to obtuse. <b>Calyces</b> colored as bracts, 12–25 mm; abaxial and adaxial clefts 4–8 mm, 20–60% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral (0–)1–3 mm, 7–25% of calyx length; lobes linear, lanceolate, or triangular, apex acute, sometimes obtuse. <b>Corollas</b> straight, 18–21 mm; tube 11–16 mm; subequal to calyx, sometimes beak exserted; beak adaxially green, 5–7(–8) mm; abaxial lip white, often proximally reddish, prominent, scarcely expanded, ± cylindric, 2.5–4(–5) mm, 50–70% as long as beak, glabrous or obscurely puberulent; teeth incurved to erect, white, 2.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24, 48.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Aug(–Sep).
|habitat=Dry slopes, ridges, scabland lithosol soils, meadows, sagebrush steppes, valleys, montane to alpine.
|elevation=200–2100 m.
|distribution=B.C.;Oreg.;Wash.
|discussion=<p><i>Castilleja thompsonii</i> is a characteristic species of the sagebrush communities on the eastern slope of the Cascade Range in Washington, and in the high deserts of the Columbia Basin. Historically, its range approached but apparently never entered Idaho in the Spokane River valley, but much of its habitat in that area is now converted to agriculture or suburban development or overwhelmed by non-native, invasive plants. <i>Castilleja thompsonii</i> occurs in a few sites in the Okanogan Valley region of southern British Columbia and at one site on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Range in Wasco County, Oregon. A distinctive form from the subalpine and alpine zones of Mt. Adams, in the southern Cascade Range of Washington, was named C. villicaulis. This form may merit varietal status under <i>C. thompsonii</i>. While both names were described in the same paper, <i>C. thompsonii</i> is the name used in all regional floras since their publication, after C. villicaulis was reduced to synonymy by M. Ownbey (1959).</p>
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name=Castilleja thompsonii
|authority=Pennell
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Castilleja villicaulis
|basionyms=
|family=Orobanchaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Aug(–Sep).
|habitat=Dry slopes, ridges, scabland lithosol soils, meadows, sagebrush steppes, valleys, montane to alpine.
|elevation=200–2100 m.
|distribution=B.C.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia
|publication year=1947
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Castilleja
|species=Castilleja thompsonii
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