Glandular Paintbrush, Gland Indian Paintbrush, Sticky Paintbrush
Castilleja glandulifera
Glandular paintbrush as seen on Lookout Rock, Monument Rock Wilderness..........August 2, 2011.
Characteristics:
Glandular paintbrush is a perennial wildflower with clustered, erect or ascending
stems arising 10-40 cm from a woody base. The angled stems may be simple or
branched, and are strongly glandular-hairy. The lower leaves are linear-lanceolate
in shape with entire margins while the upper leaves are wider with a pair of
short lateral lobes.
The bracts and calyces are pale to deep yellow, or occasionally a dull orange-red
color. The sticky bracts have 1-2 pairs of lateral lobes and are usually shorter
than the flowers. The calyx is 15-20 mm long, roughly equally parted above and
below, the lateral segments again parted 2-6 mm into lanceolate segments. The
corolla is 20-25 mm long, the hairy galea about 2/3 as long as the tube and
about 5 times longer than the dark green, thickened, and incurved lower lip.
Habitat:
Glandular paintbrush is limited to dry, rocky or gravelly slopes
at moderate to high elevations in the mountains.
Range:
Glandular paintbrush is found in the Blue and Wallowa Mts. of
eastern Oregon.
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Additional close-up photos of glandular paintbrush as seen on Lookout Rock, Monument Rock Wilderness..........August 2, 2011. The uppermost photos show close-ups of the inflorescence and floral parts. The lower left photo shows a dorsal view of the calyx. The lower middle photo shows a lateral view of the calyx. The lower right photo shows a close-up of the corolla tube.
Glandular paintbrush blooming at the base of a krummholtz subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) and possibly parasitic on the shrubby penstemon (Penstemon fruticosus var. fruticosus) that divides the two clumps of the paintbrush. Photographed at about 8500' on the east side of Strawberry Mountain, Strawberry Mountain Wilderness............August 18, 2011.
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Glandular paintbrush blooming on rocky slopes at a pass along the trail about one mile northeast of High Lake, Strawberry Mountain Wilderness..........July 17, 2013.
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Glandular paintbrush fading out of bloom at left on open slopes between the Bonney Lakes, Eagle Cap Wilderness.......August 12, 2018. The photo at right shows glandular paintbrush blooming next to Piper's buckwheat (Eriogonum flavum var. piperi) on balds next to the Lick Creek Trail #1809, Hells Canyon National Recreation Area.......July 17, 2019.
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Glandular paintbrush spotted along the Pine Creek Trail #201 about one-third of a mile northwest of the Roads End Trailhead, Strawberry Mountain Wilderness......June 7, 2023.
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Close-ups of an upper stem
leafand the inflorescence of glandular paintbrush, photographed at Dixie Butte Lookout, Malheur N.F..........July
4, 2002.
Narrow-leaved paintbrush (Castilleja linariifolia) and gland paintbrush on sagebrush slopes around Table Rock, Monument Rock Wilderness..........August 3, 2011.
Paul Slichter