Castilleja indivisa

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Family:OROBANCHACEAE
Species:Castilleja indivisa Engelm.
Common Name:Texas Paintbrush; Entire Leaf Indian Paintbrush
Habitat:**
Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Annual
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:**
Plant Notes:Texas Paintbrush is an introduced annual herb in the Broomrape family (Orobanchaceae). It is native to Texas and adjacent states. In Alabama it has been collected in scattered locations across the state. Texas Paintbrush is often included in wildflower seed mixes and was frequently planted along highways by the Alabama Department of Transportation in the past. It persists on roadsides and adjacent weedy areas. It is an annual with a tap root. The stems are solitary or branched, erect, green in color, and pubescent with spreading hairs and stalked glands. Leaves are alternate, sessile, not forming distinct rosettes, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate in outline, with wavy and sometimes lobed margins. Flowers are produced in terminal inflorescences. Each flower is subtended by a large scarlet or orangish bract. In some cultivated plants the bracts may be pink, peach, deep red, yellow, or white in color. Each flower has 4 sepals that form a tube that is green towards the base and pale red or yellow towards the tip. The corolla has 5 yellow or pink petals forming a tube. The fruit is a capsule with many small seed. Texas Paintbrush is a root-hemiparasite. When the seed germinates it must form a connection through the roots of a host plant (usually a grass) in order to continue development. Texas Paintbrush is commonly available as seed. The seed should be planted in the autumn in areas that have been mown and raked, but with the grass still present.—A. Diamond.
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Not Native
References:**
Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyOROBANCHACEAE - Broomrape family
Genus Castilleja
Species Castilleja indivisa Engelm. - Texas Paintbrush; Entire Leaf Indian Paintbrush

Citation

Citation Castilleja indivisa Engelmann, Boston J. Nat. Hist. 5(2): 255. 1845.
Basionym: **
Type: USA: TEXAS: "Prairies from Houston to the Colorado", s.d., Lindheimer 284 (holotype: MO; isotype: PH).

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Synonyms

No synonyms exist for this species.

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Chilton, Cleburne, Coffee, Crenshaw, Elmore, Houston, Macon, Marengo, Montgomery, Pike, Talladega

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AUA, JSU, TROY, UNA, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
UWAL0032990 Houston 24 Apr 2016 Diamond, Alvin R.
27341		 UWAL
Castilleja indivisa Engelmann
UNA00061249 Elmore 24 Apr 2003 Spaulding, Daniel D.
11764		 UNA
Castilleja indivisa Engelm.
UWAL0033763 Crenshaw 12 Apr 2015 Keener, Brian R.
8748		 UWAL
Castilleja indivisa Engelmann
JSU139432 Talladega 16 Jul 1993 Spaulding, Daniel D.
4184		 JSU
Castilleja indivisa Engelmann
ALNHS00001153 Chilton 12 Apr 2012 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#532		 ALNHS
Castilleja indivisa Engelm.
TROY000023764 Elmore 24 Apr 2003 Spaulding, Daniel D.
11764		 TROY
Castilleja indivisa Engelmann
TROY000043862 Houston 24 Apr 2016 Diamond, Alvin R.
27341		 TROY
Castilleja indivisa Engelmann
TROY000033698 Chilton 13 Apr 2008 Spaulding, Daniel D.
12831		 TROY
Castilleja indivisa Engelmann
AUA000043739 Macon 22 Mar 2018 Swick, E.N.
 AUA
Castilleja Indivisa Engelm.
TROY000009038 Montgomery 05 Nov 1998 Johnson, S.
1		 TROY
Castilleja indivisa Engelmann
TROY000009039 Pike 12 May 1995 Wade, Tracy
5		 TROY
Castilleja indivisa Engelmann
TROY000009037 Coffee 14 Mar 2000 Martin, Brian H.
487		 TROY
Castilleja indivisa Engelmann
AUA_ACC_67589 Cleburne 14 Apr 2006 Tuggle, Andrea
9		 AUA
Castilleja Indivisa Engelm.
ALNHS00004043 Marengo 20 Apr 2016 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#2297		 ALNHS
Castilleja indivisa Engelm.
TROY000035300 Montgomery 25 Mar 2012 Diamond, Alvin R.
22875		 TROY
Castilleja indivisa Engelmann
TROY000009040 Pike 23 Apr 1998 Diamond, Alvin R.
s.n.		 TROY
Castilleja indivisa Engelmann
UWAL0002171 Chilton 13 Apr 2008 Spaulding, Daniel D.
12831		 UWAL
Castilleja indivisa Engelm.
UWAL0011286 Montgomery 25 Mar 2012 Diamond, Alvin R.
22875		 UWAL
Castilleja indivisa Engelmann
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