Castilleja miniataDouglas ex Benth.

giant red paintbrush

WFO wfo-0000590354 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Castilleja miniata, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. a Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-06 / obs. 205923367
Castilleja miniata, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. b Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199007014
Castilleja miniata, photographed by lejones417
fig. c lejones417, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 168226433
Castilleja miniata, photographed by Jared Shorma
fig. d Jared Shorma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160248491
Castilleja miniata, photographed by Jared Shorma
fig. e Jared Shorma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160248482
Castilleja miniata, photographed by Paul Asman
fig. f Paul Asman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157906672
Castilleja miniata, photographed by J Straka
fig. g J Straka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154258189
Castilleja miniata, photographed by Matt Lavin
fig. h Matt Lavin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172945059

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Flowering n = 2,261 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 2,261 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 19 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 confusa Greene
  • Castilleja confusa var. pubens (A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.
  • Castilleja crispula Piper
  • Castilleja dixonii Fernald
  • Castilleja fulva Pennell
  • Castilleja hyetophila Pennell
  • Castilleja hyetophila f. longiflora Pennell
  • Castilleja inconstans Standl.
  • Castilleja miniata subsp. dixonii (Fernald) Kartesz
  • Castilleja miniata var. crispula (Piper) A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.
  • Castilleja montana Congdon
  • Castilleja oblongifolia A.Gray
  • Castilleja pallida var. miniata (Douglas ex Hook.) A.Gray
  • Castilleja rhexiifolia var. pubens A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.
  • Castilleja trinervis Rydb.
  • Castilleja tweedyi Rydb.
  • Castilleja variabilis Rydb.
  • Castilleja vreelandii Rydb.
  • Euchroma integrifolia Nutt. ex Benth.

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.