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Castilleja nivea
Also called Snowy Paintbrush
Castilleja nivea, the snow paintbrush or snowy paintbrush, is a rare species of alpine plant from northern Wyoming and southern Montana.
Snow paintbrushes grow in a limited area of northwestern Wyoming and nearby Montana. In Wyoming they are recorded in Park County and Hot Springs County, but north of the border it is only found in Carbon County, Montana. Its grows on the mountains in Absaroka Range and the Beartooth Range. As of 1999 there were approximately 20 populations of the species in Wyoming with eight of them in protected wilderness areas.
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Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
