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|accepted_name=Castilleja praeterita
|accepted_authority=Heckard & Bacigalupi
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Madroño
|place=20: 209, fig. 1. 1970
|year=1970
}}
|common_names=Salmon Creek paintbrush
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Castilleja;Castilleja praeterita
|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 praeterita]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 577, 647
|treatment_page=page 646
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, (1–)1.6–4.5 dm; from a woody caudex; with a taproot. <b>Stems</b> several to many, ascending to erect, ± decumbent at base, branched or unbranched, sometimes with short, leafy axillary shoots, hairs spreading to ascending, long, soft to ± stiff, mixed with short-eglandular ones. <b>Leaves</b> purple or green, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 3–5 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, partly involute, 3–5-lobed, apex acuminate, acute, or rounded; lobes sometimes divergent, spreading-ascending, linear, apex obtuse to rounded. <b>Inflorescences</b> (2.5–)5–15 × 1.5–2 cm; bracts proximally green to dull purplish, distally pale reddish purple, dull red, pale salmon, pale orange, or bright to pale yellow, oblong, 3(–5)-lobed; lobes spreading to ascending, linear to oblanceolate, distal pair, if present, short and toothlike, short to long, arising at or above mid length, center lobe apex rounded to truncate, lateral lobes obtuse to rounded. <b>Calyces</b> proximally usually whitish, distally colored as bracts, 13–18 mm; abaxial and adaxial clefts 5–6(–9) mm, ca. 50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 0.5–1.2 mm, ca. 18% of calyx length; lobes ± hemispheric, segments often curved outwards, exposing corollas, apex rounded to obtuse, rarely acute. <b>Corollas</b> straight, 11–16 mm; tube 10–13 mm; beak included or tip exserted; beak adaxially green, 4–5 mm; abaxial lip deep green, reduced, with narrow pouches, 2.5–3 mm, 30–45% as long as beak; teeth reduced to minute apiculations, dark green, 0.5–1 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Dry gravelly meadows and flats, with Artemisia rothrockii, often over granite.
|elevation=2200–3400 m.
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p><i>Castilleja praeterita</i> is endemic to subalpine, sagebrush-dominated meadows in the southeastern Sierra <i>Nevada</i> of Inyo and Tulare counties. It is closely associated with and likely parasitic on <i>Artemisia rothrockii</i>. Inflorescence coloration varies by population, with some having only yellow-bracted plants, while others are pale orange to pale red with occasional pale yellow variants. Yet other populations have only pale salmon-colored bracts.</p>
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name=Castilleja praeterita
|authority=Heckard & Bacigalupi
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orobanchaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Dry gravelly meadows and flats, with Artemisia rothrockii, often over granite.
|elevation=2200–3400 m.
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Madroño
|publication year=1970
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
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|genus=Castilleja
|species=Castilleja praeterita
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