ALBERTA PAINTBRUSH 
Castilleja miniata Bentham 
No group of plants that we have observed in the Canadian Rockies 
exhibits such a wonderful variety of color as the species of Castilleja, 
almost universally known as paintbrushes, which ate teptesentatives 
of the Figwort Family. All tints from white, through yellow, green, 
pink, red, and winecolor, with evety degree of shade between, ate to 
be seen in nature's gardens. Some are dazzlingly brilliant, but othets 
ate softly shaded with the deepest color on the tips of the bracts form- 
ing the head. Even in the same species there is often a sutprising 
variation in coloring, and isolated plants of forms with normally red 
bracts have yellow bracted spikes. 
This species of paintbrush ranges from Montana and Washington 
north to Alberta and Saskatchewan. : 
The specimen painted grew neat out camp on the headwaters of 
the Clearwater River, forty-five miles by trail north of Lake Louise, 
Alberta, at an altitude of 6, 500 feet. 
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