Magenta Indian Paintbrush
Like other members of the Indian paintbrush family, these vibrant, high elevation-loving wildflowers are hemisitic. They feed at least is some part on the roots of neighboring grasses and wildflowers. If you look closely, the bright magenta part isn't the flower, but are colored leaves called bracts. The actual flowers are the tiny yellowish-green tubes sticking out of the bracts. These were photographed in the subalpine heights on Washington's Mount Rainier.
- Copyright
- © 2011
- Image Size
- 2581x3886 / 7.1MB
- Keywords
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Angiosperms, Asterids, C. parviflora, Castilleja, Castilleja parviflora, Castilleja parviflora var. oreopola, Eudicots, Henry Indian paintbrush, Indian paintbrush, Lamiales, Mount Rainier, National Park, Orobanchaceae, Plantae, Washington, alpine, background, beautiful, beauty, bloom, blooming, blooms, blossom, blossoms, botany, bud, color, countryside, dicot, environment, field, figwort, flora, flower, flowers, forb, fresh, fushia, green, habitat, herb, hot pink, inland, landscape, magenta, magenta Indian paintbrush, meadow, mountain Indian paintbrush, native, natural, nature, paintbrush, perennia, pink, plant, plants, purple, small-flowered Indian paintbrush, subalpine, subshrub, summer, wild, wilderness, wildflowers
- Contained in galleries
- Pink Wildflowers, Orobanchaceae (Indian Paintbrushes and Broomrapes)
