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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Castilleja elegans
|accepted_authority=Malte
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=36: 187. 1934
|year=1934
}}
|common_names=Elegant paintbrush
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Castilleja pallida subsp. elegans
|authority=(Malte) Pennell
|rank=subspecies
}}
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Castilleja;Castilleja elegans
|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 elegans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 574, 605, 639, 650
|treatment_page=page 604
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, 0.5–3 dm; from a woody caudex; with a slender taproot. <b>Stems</b> few to several, ascending to erect, or slightly decumbent at base, unbranched, hairy, sometimes glabrate near base, hairs erect-ascending, whitish or yellowish, long, soft, eglandular, mixed with shorter stipitate-glandular ones, especially distally. <b>Leaves</b> green to sometimes purple-tinged, lanceolate to narrowly oblong, (1.2–)2–6(–9) cm, not fleshy, margins plane, sometimes ± wavy, flat to ± involute, 0-lobed, sometimes 3-lobed distally, immediately below inflorescence, apex acuminate to caudate; lobes ascending to erect, linear to lanceolate, lateral lobes narrower than central, apex acuminate. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1.5–9 × 1.5–3 cm; bracts purple to pink-purple or reddish purple throughout, sometimes proximally purple to pink-purple or reddish purple, distally whitish or pale pink, oblong to lanceolate or narrowly ovate, (0–)3–7-lobed; lobes spreading-ascending, linear-lanceolate, narrow, short or long, arising near or above mid length, center lobe apex rounded to sometimes acute, lateral ones acute. <b>Calyces</b> yellow to yellow-green, rarely purplish to dull red throughout, 19–25 mm; abaxial and adaxial clefts 10–17 mm, 60–70% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral (2–)5–8 mm, 20–25% of calyx length; lobes narrowly oblong to lanceolate, apex rounded or obtuse, sometimes acute. <b>Corollas</b> straight, 18–28 mm; tube 17–20 mm; abaxial lip generally visible between calyx lobes, sometimes exserted above them, beak exserted; beak adaxially green, yellowish green, or purplish green, 4–8 mm; abaxial lip purple or magenta, medium sized, often visible through or above abaxial cleft, pouches 3, slightly inflated, 3–5.5 mm, 50+% as long as beak; teeth ascending, purple or magenta, 1–1.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Meadows, tundra, fell fields, moraines, talus, rocky slopes, shrub thickets, gravel bars, lakeshores.
|elevation=0–2000 m.
|distribution=Man.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;e Asia (Russian Far East).
|discussion=<p><i>Castilleja elegans</i> is a characteristic species of the arctic and arctic-alpine regions. Its eastern and western limits are poorly understood, due to confusion with the similar species <i>C. raupii</i> to the east and south, and with <i>C. rubra</i> (Drobow) Rebristaya in eastern Asia. All three are part of a morphologically variable complex of recently evolved and poorly differentiated entities informally known as the <i>C. pallida</i> complex, after the first-described member of the group. Some reports of <i>C. elegans</i> in eastern Canada are here referred to <i>C. septentrionalis</i>. A recent collection of <i>C. elegans</i> from the northern Canadian Rocky Mountains is apparently disjunct, though it may also suggest its wider presence in Alberta.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Castilleja elegans
|authority=Malte
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Castilleja pallida subsp. elegans
|basionyms=
|family=Orobanchaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Meadows, tundra, fell fields, moraines, talus, rocky slopes, shrub thickets, gravel bars, lakeshores.
|elevation=0–2000 m.
|distribution=Man.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;e Asia (Russian Far East).
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1934
|special status=
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|genus=Castilleja
|species=Castilleja elegans
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