Castilleja rubicundula
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Castilleja rubicundula is a species of Indian paintbrush
known by the common name cream sacs.
This wildflower is native to northern California and southern Oregon, where it lives on coastal and inland grasslands. It is a hairy, glandular annual growing to about half a meter in height, the stem leafy with lance-shaped foliage. It produces a terminal inflorescence
and sometimes branches off several more inflorescences. The white, pink, yellow, or bicolored flowers are divided into usually three pouches, making them look inflated. Each pouch is about a centimeter wide and half a centimeter deep. Each flower has a beak extending about half a centimeter above the pouches. The fruit is a capsule containing tiny seeds less than a millimeter long. Under magnification the seed's honeycomb-patterned coat is visible.
Castilleja
Castilleja, commonly known as Indian paintbrush or Prairie-fire, is a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas from Alaska south to the Andes, northern Asia, and one species as far west as the Kola Peninsula in Siberia...
known by the common name cream sacs.
This wildflower is native to northern California and southern Oregon, where it lives on coastal and inland grasslands. It is a hairy, glandular annual growing to about half a meter in height, the stem leafy with lance-shaped foliage. It produces a terminal inflorescence
Inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Strictly, it is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed and which is accordingly modified...
and sometimes branches off several more inflorescences. The white, pink, yellow, or bicolored flowers are divided into usually three pouches, making them look inflated. Each pouch is about a centimeter wide and half a centimeter deep. Each flower has a beak extending about half a centimeter above the pouches. The fruit is a capsule containing tiny seeds less than a millimeter long. Under magnification the seed's honeycomb-patterned coat is visible.