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Castilleja pallida hyparctica

(Castilleja pallida hyparctica)

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Description

Castilleja pallida is a snyltrotsv-xtart first described by Carl von Linn- and was given its current name of Spreng. According to Catalog of Life included Castilleja pallida in the genus paint brushes and family Broomrape, but according Dynttaxa is the affinity instead genus paint brushes and family Broomrape. The species has not been found in Sweden. 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 northwestern Russia. These plants are classified in the broomrape family, Orobanchaceae (following major rearrangements of the order Lamiales starting around 2001; sources which do not follow these reclassifications may place them in the Scrophulariaceae). They are hemiparasitic on the roots of grasses and forbs. The generic name honours Spanish botanist Domingo Castillejo.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Lamiales
Family:Orobanchaceae
Genus:Castilleja
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