FIGWORT FAMILY 



SCARLET PAINTED-CUP 



Castilleja coccinea 



Named for Castillejo, a Spanish botanist. 



Perennial or biennial. Low, sandy ground. Maine 

 and Ontario to Manitoba, south to the Carolinas, Kansas, 

 and Texas. Appears in northern Ohio. May- July. 



Stem. — Simple, with few erect 

 branches, six to twenty-four inches 

 high, pubescent. 



Leaves. — Basal leaves clustered, 

 mostly entire, obovate or oblong; 

 stem-leaves deeply and irregularly 

 cleft; floral leaves dilated, three to 

 five-cleft, bright scarlet toward the 

 summit. 



Flowers.— Incons^icMOMS, greenish 

 yellow, enclosed by broad, three- 

 cleft floral bracts, more or less tipped 

 with vermilion, iDorne in a terminal 

 spike. 



Calyx. — Flattened, tubular, cleft 

 above and below into two lobes, 

 usually green, sometimes scarlet. 



Corolla. — Irregular; upper lip long 

 and arched; the short lower lip three- 

 lobed. 



Stamens.— FoMx, unequal, two long 

 and two short; anther-sacs unequal. 



Pistil. — Ovary one; style threadlike. 



Fruit. — Many-seeded capsule. 



The curious thing about the Painted-Cup is that 

 when the flowering time comes the entire plant bursts 

 into bloom. The real blossom is yellow and incon- 



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Scarlet Painted-Cup. 

 CastilUja coccinea 



