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|accepted_name=Castilleja puberula
|accepted_authority=Rydberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=31: 644. 1905
|year=1905
}}
|common_names=Alpine or short-flowered paintbrush
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Castilleja;Castilleja puberula
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orobanchaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Castilleja]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Castilleja puberula]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 576
|treatment_page=page 648
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, 0.8–1.5 dm; from a woody caudex; with a taproot. <b>Stems</b> few to several, erect or ascending, unbranched, sometimes branched, hairs retrorse, short, soft, eglandular. <b>Leaves</b> green to purple, linear to linear-lanceolate, 2–3.3 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, involute, 0–3(–5)-lobed, apex acuminate; lobes ascending-spreading to widely spreading, narrowly linear, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> 4–5 × 1.5–2.5 cm; bracts greenish throughout, or proximally greenish, distally bright yellow, yellow-green, or yellow-orange on apices, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 0–5(–7)-lobed; lobes spreading, filiform to linear, long, proximal lobes arising in proximal 1/2, apex acute to acuminate. <b>Calyces</b> light green to yellowish, margins sometimes yellow, 10–17 mm; abaxial clefts 8–9 mm, adaxial 2–3 mm, abaxial ca. 50% of calyx length, adaxial ca. 20% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 1.9–2.5 mm, 12–20% of calyx length; lobes narrowly triangular, apex acute to acuminate. <b>Corollas</b> straight or slightly curved, 18–21 mm; tube 13–15 mm; beak exserted, adaxially yellow to yellow-green, 6–8 mm; abaxial lip green, reduced, visible in front cleft, slightly pouched, 2.5–3.5 mm, 35–60% as long as beak; teeth erect, yellow, 1 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (Feb–)Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Moist meadows, stream banks, mesic rocky slopes, tundra, subalpine and alpine.
|elevation=2700–3900 m.
|distribution=Colo.;Mont.
|discussion=<p><i>Castilleja puberula</i> is a near-endemic of alpine communities in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado in Boulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Grand, Larimer, and Park counties. A highly disjunct population occurs near the summit of Mt. Jefferson on the Continental Divide in Beaverhead County, Montana. <i>Castilleja puberula</i> appears to be a high-elevation isolate from the widespread <i>C. flava</i>, which is common at lower elevations in the Intermountain Region. A single case of hybridization with <i>C. septentrionalis</i> is known from Clear Creek County.</p>
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name=Castilleja puberula
|authority=Rydberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orobanchaceae
|phenology=Flowering (Feb–)Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Moist meadows, stream banks, mesic rocky slopes, tundra, subalpine and alpine.
|elevation=2700–3900 m.
|distribution=Colo.;Mont.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1905
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
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|genus=Castilleja
|species=Castilleja puberula
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