Castilleja

<p><i>Castilleja</i>, commonly known as paintbrush, Indian paintbrush, or prairie-fire, is a <a href="/facts/Genus/m8EFjSms">genus</a> of about 200 species of <a href="/facts/Annual_plant/SkPv72DA">annual</a> and <a href="/facts/Perennial_plant/MQ3NvAUW">perennial</a> mostly <a href="/facts/Herbaceous_plant/u6myDhE2">herbaceous plants</a> native to the west of the <a href="/facts/Americas/hEuUTL4K">Americas</a> from <a href="/facts/Alaska/LlDNr2uR">Alaska</a> south to the <a href="/facts/Andes/a4wlgG3e">Andes</a>, northern <a href="/facts/Asia/4IToYrrQ">Asia</a>, and one species as far west as the <a href="/facts/Kola_Peninsula/uTtzIYES">Kola Peninsula</a> in northwestern Russia. These plants are classified in the broomrape family <a href="/facts/Orobanchaceae/NUMn5wgN">Orobanchaceae</a> (following major rearrangements of the order <a href="/facts/Lamiales/yDY1ElfU">Lamiales</a> starting around 2001; sources which do not follow these reclassifications may place them in the <a href="/facts/Scrophulariaceae/RWr9sSlL">Scrophulariaceae</a>). They are <a href="/facts/Hemiparasitic/70UAImum">hemiparasitic</a> on the roots of <a href="/facts/Graminoid/UsR1g55c">grasses</a> and <a href="/facts/Forb/G6S7e8E6">forbs</a>. The genus was named after Spanish botanist <a href="/facts/Domingo_Castillejo/xgqbHuXK">Domingo Castillejo</a>.
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Castilleja