Wooly Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja foliolosa)

Indian Paintbrush draws your eye, with little splashes of red amongst the green. The flower is a complex group of shapes. The red is actually leaf tips, and the tiny flower is green.

January		April	July	October
	Red flowers

Field ID Tips

· Blooms March – August

· Orange-red ball of flowers on top of a 2-6” stem.

· Fuzzy, long, thin, cupped, pale green leaves

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Mountain Home to West Point Flowers

Red flowers with pale green fuzzy leaves.

Wooly Indian Paintbrush poking out among Chamise and Yerba Santa. The pale colored leaves in the upper left are from the Paintbrush..