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Camp Martin paintbrush

Castilleja martini

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) sshigenaga, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

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 California.January 99, February 86, March 90, April 111, May 108, June 93, July 68, August 69, September 88, October 90, November 115, December 89.
United States1,383
California1,093
Nevada289
Mexico16
Baja California16
Arizona1

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 Camp Martin paintbrush with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.