Taxon: Castilleja tenuiflora Benth.
Family: Scrophulariaceae

Collector: Wendy C. Hodgson   12688   

Date: 08 September 2000

Locality: USA, Arizona, Santa Cruz County, Coronado National Forest, Santa Rita Mountains, northeast of Temporal Gulch, along Walker Basin Trail, ca 6 miles north of trailhead, 11.6 miles north of Patagonia, less than a mile from Chinaman Trail, north of and above Upper Walker Tank.

31.66367  -110.8153

Verbatim Coordinates: 31d 39.82m N; 110d 48.917m W

Elevation: 1730 meters

Verbatim Elevation: 5700ft.

Habitat: Pine-oak woodland

Associated Species: Bouvardia ternifolia, Guardiola platyphylla, Muhlenbergia emersleyi, Gnaphalium, Ipomopsis thurberi, Tagetes micrantha, Echeandia flavescens, Ipomoea hederifolia, Arbutus arizonica, Quercus hypoleucoides, Quercus emoryi, Q. oblongifolia, Quercus sp., Rhus choriophylla, Pinus engelmannii, P. leiophylla chihuahuana, Agave palmeri, Nolina microcarpa, Dasylirion wheeleri, Cercocarpus montanus paucidentatus, Commelina dianthifolia, Macroptilium gibbosifolium, Lasianthaea podocephala, Eragrostis intermedia, E. lehmanniana, Bouteloua curtipendula, Acourtia thurberi, Brickellia amplexicaulis, Eragrostis lehmanniana, Panicum obtusum, Viguiera dentata dentata, Desmodium rosei.

Description: Uncommon herbaceous perennial, bracts red/yellow.

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For additional information on this specimen, please contact: Wendy C. Hodgson (whodgson@dbg.org)

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