Castilleja chromosaA.Nelson

Desert Paintbrush

WFO wfo-0000590118 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Castilleja chromosa, photographed by Edward Cope
fig. a Edward Cope, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 202380810
Castilleja chromosa, photographed by Robert Webster
fig. b Robert Webster, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 199677869
Castilleja chromosa, photographed by Whitney Brook Matson
fig. c Whitney Brook Matson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201153917
Castilleja chromosa, photographed by Tim Messick
fig. d Tim Messick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200585117
Castilleja chromosa, photographed by Tim Messick
fig. e Tim Messick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203315900
Castilleja chromosa, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. f Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196011623
Castilleja chromosa, photographed by Tim Messick
fig. g Tim Messick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194557514
Castilleja chromosa, photographed by Mitch Van Dyke
fig. h Mitch Van Dyke, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191167608

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Flowering n = 1,215 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,215 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 9 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Castilleja angustifolia var. collina (A.Nelson) Garrett
  • Castilleja collina A.Nelson
  • Castilleja eremophila Wooton & Standl.
  • Castilleja ewanii Eastw.
  • Castilleja helleri Edwin
  • Castilleja martini subsp. ewanii (Eastw.) Munz
  • Castilleja martini var. ewanii (Eastw.) N.H.Holmgren
  • Castilleja miniata var. chromosa (A.Nelson) Garrett
  • Castilleja pyramidalis Edwin

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.