Index / Search / Castilleja purpurea var. purpurea
§1 Plant
Castilleja purpurea (Nutt.) G. Don var. purpurea
vernacular downy Indian paintbrush — variety · Scrophulariaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Scrophulariaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Castilleja
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 32 counties across 3 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 32 counties across 3 states/territories.
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Bosque 48035
- Brown 48049
- Coleman 48083
- Comanche 48093
- Concho 48095
- Coryell 48099
- Crockett 48105
- Dallas 48113
- Delta 48119
- Eastland 48133
- Erath 48143
- Grayson 48181
- Hamilton 48193
- Hill 48217
- Hood 48221
- Hunt 48231
- Johnson 48251
- La Salle 48283
- Lamb 48279
- Limestone 48293
- Madison 48313
- Marion 48315
- McLennan 48309
- Mills 48333
- Parker 48367
- San Saba 48411
- Somervell 48425
- Stephens 48429
- Tarrant 48439
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CAPUP5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3170619 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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