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Southern Mountains Paintbrush

Castilleja nelsonii

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Arizona.January 17, February 16, March 21, April 28, May 26, June 35, July 50, August 63, September 21, October 13, November 14, December 15.
United States246
Arizona213
New Mexico33
Mexico5
Chihuahua4
Durango1

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • ParasiteDescends from a lineage whose members commonly live parasitically on another organism.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderMints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies · Lamiales
Familybroomrape family · Orobanchaceae
GenusPaintbrushes · Castilleja

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Southern Mountains Paintbrush with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.