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|accepted_name=Castilleja parvula
|accepted_authority=Rydberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=34: 40. 1907
|year=1907
}}
|common_names=Tushar Mountains paintbrush
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Castilleja;Castilleja parvula
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orobanchaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Castilleja]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Castilleja parvula]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 580
|treatment_page=page 642
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, 1–2 dm; from a woody caudex; with a taproot or stout, branched roots. <b>Stems</b> several to many, decumbent to ascending, unbranched except for small, leafy axillary shoots, hairs retrorse, short proximally, spreading, longer distally, soft, stipitate-glandular. <b>Leaves</b> green to blackish, proximalmost small and scalelike, linear to narrowly or broadly lanceolate, 1–3(–4) cm, not fleshy, margins plane, involute, 0(–3)-lobed, apex obtuse to rounded; lobes ascending, linear or short-lanceolate, very small, apex acute to obtuse. <b>Inflorescences</b> 4–6.5 × 1–3 cm; bracts proximally greenish to deep purple near base, distally magenta, deep pink, or red, broadly lanceolate to elliptic, oblong, or ovate, 0–5-lobed; lobes ascending to erect, triangular to oblong, short, arising near apex, central lobe apex rounded, lateral ones acute to rounded. <b>Calyces</b> colored as bracts, 12–18 mm; abaxial and adaxial clefts 5.5–8.5(–10) mm, ca. 50% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 1–3(–5) mm, ca. 25% of calyx length; lobes broadly linear or narrowly triangular, apex acute to obtuse, sometimes rounded. <b>Corollas</b> straight, 16–24 mm; tube 10–13(–15) mm; beak exserted, adaxially green, 4.5–8(–9) mm; abaxial lip green to deep purple, reduced, 1–3 mm, 40–45% as long as beak; teeth incurved, greenish, (0.5–)1–2.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Gravelly meadows, rocky slopes, talus, ridges, krummholz zone or alpine.
|elevation=2700–3700 m.
|distribution=Utah.
|discussion=<p><i>Castilleja parvula</i> is limited to the upper elevations of the Tushar Mountains. Morphologically, it appears to be a species derived from the widespread Rocky Mountains species <i>C. rhexiifolia</i>.</p>
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name=Castilleja parvula
|author=
|authority=Rydberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orobanchaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Gravelly meadows, rocky slopes, talus, ridges, krummholz zone or alpine.
|elevation=2700–3700 m.
|distribution=Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1907
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
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|genus=Castilleja
|species=Castilleja parvula
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