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Indian paintbrush

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Indian paintbrush: see figwort figwort, common name for some members of the Scrophulariaceae, a family comprising chiefly herbs and small shrubs and distributed widely over all continents. The family includes a few climbing types and some parasitic and saprophytic forms.
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Indian paintbrush

 or paintbrush

Any plant of the genus Castilleja (snapdragon family), which contains about 200 species of partially or wholly parasitic wildflowers that obtain nourishment from the roots of other plants. The small, tubular, two-lipped flowers are surrounded by brightly coloured upper leaves, giving the plant the appearance of having been dipped in a pot of red, orange, yellow, pink, or white paint.


Indian paintbrush
of Wyoming. [Flower Symbolism: Golenpaul, 646]


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On this tour a few weeks back, we found quite a bit of lavender-colored stinging lupine, bright-red Indian paintbrush and soft-yellow island bush poppy - which grows as a shrub rather than the more familiar ground flower that is the California poppy.
Holes (Farrar) by Louis Sachar is the 2000-2001 Indian Paintbrush Award winner, selected by fourth through sixth graders in Wyoming.
E[acute accent]As the bluebonnets and Indian paintbrush begin to fade, the region will experience other blooms and colors.
 
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