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Valley Tassels (Castilleja attenuata)
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Flower
White
Other
Petals Not Obvious
Alternate
Typical Height
Annual
Native
Description
EW Bloom Apr - May
This
paintbrush
is decorated with white and purple accents.
The stem is generally unbranched, with a narrow flower cluster on top.
Tiny flowers present three thin pouches and a beak.
CA native
AKA Narrow-Leaved Owl's Clover
Broomrape Family (Orobanchaceae)
Paintbrush flowers are white with purple dots.
Bracts
have white tips.
This plant is slender and unbranched - thus its species name,
attenuata
.
Valley Tassels is found in grasslands, especially around the Central Valley.
Photo Gallery (42 ) click any picture to enlarge
Valley Tassels is an [[annual]], generally found in grasslands. It grows in a slender column, about 1 foot tall.
As with other [[paintbrushes]], most of what you see are [[bracts]] which wrap around tubular flowers. Bracts are mostly green and split into three ...
Leaves, bracts and stems are covered in short hairs that go in all directions. The hairs have no [[glands]] at their tips, so they're not sticky.
Purple flower markings make this one of the Owl's Clovers - a group of [[paintbrushes]] that remind people of owls' faces. They're surrounded by whit ...
Flowers have 3, parallel, vertical pouches that puff out slightly. Above the pouches, a beak points straight up. The [[pistil]] and [[stamens]] are ...