Castilleja subinclusa

Franciscan paint brush

Family: Orobanchaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Franciscan paint brush is a California native perennial found in coastal and central California regions in coastal bluff and coastal prairie habitats at elevations near sea level to 500 meters. Flowering from April to August, this plant produces bright red to orange-red bracts with yellow-green and rose-pink flowers 30 to 50 millimeters long. Growing with erect stems 30 to 120 centimeters tall, becoming increasingly purple and glandular-hairy with short axillary shoots. Its lanceolate leaves range 30 to 80 millimeters long, with 0 to 3 lobes and a grayish-green coloration. The flower's distinctive calyx is 20 to 32 millimeters long, with a curved corolla and a shaggy, densely puberulent beak.

California counties: Ventura, San Luis Obispo, El Dorado, Calaveras, Butte, Fresno, San Benito, Monterey, Tulare, Kern, Sutter, San Diego, Del Norte, Placer, Los Angeles, Tehama, Tuolumne, Nevada, Marin, Santa Barbara, Amador, San Mateo, Riverside

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.