Foothills, montane. Shrublands, woodlands, badlands. Spring.
Acoma-Zuni Trail, El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico, April 12, 2007.

Castilleja integra grows to a maximum of about twenty inches tall.  Shown here, it is nine inches in early spring on lichen covered lava of El Malpais.  The white hairiness of the plant is evident especially if you look at the sides of the stems in the photograph.  The plant ranges through the southwest in Pinyon/Juniper and Ponderosa forest communities.

"Integra", Latin for "whole", refers to the bracts and leaves which are not incised or lobed as in many other species of Castilleja.

Asa Gray named and described this species in 1858 from a specimen collected by Wright and Bigelow in 1852 near El Paso, Texas.

Foothills, montane. Shrublands, woodlands, badlands. Spring.
Acoma-Zuni Trail, El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico, April 12, 2007.

The very fine hairiness of this plant is evident not only on the stem but also on the bracts and floral tube.

Range map © John Kartesz,
Floristic Synthesis of North America

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Range map for Castilleja integra