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Castilleja puberula
Also called Alpine Paintbrush, Short Flowered Paintbrush
Castilleja puberula, commonly alpine paintbrush or short-flowered paintbrush, is a plant species in the broomrape family that grows exclusively in high elevation habitats. Before 2014 it was thought to only grow in Colorado in mountains near the Great Divide, but an additional population was located on a mountain in southwest Montana.
Most of the known range of the alpine paintbrush is in north-central Colorado near the North American Continental Divide. It has been recorded in six Colorado counties from south to north including Park, Summit, Clear Creek, Grand, Boulder, and Larimer. Until 2014 the presence of alpine paintbrush on the Montanan side of Mount Jefferson was not recognized, despite the species having been previously collected by a botanist in 2004. The wide gap of nearly 600 kilometers between the Coloradan population and the Montanan population suggests there may be additional populations in Wyoming in similar habitats.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Castilleja puberula by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
