#Indian paintbrush flower full#
Scattered in the grass were brushes full of bright paint. Then a dream vision, praising his art's contribution to his people, sent him up his favorite hill at sunset. In particular, he wanted to paint the brilliant colors of the sunset. He gathered rocks and plants to make his colors, but always wished for brighter ones. As he grew, he recorded the tribe's history in beautiful paintings. The book tells of a boy, Little Gopher, who was too small to do well at hunting or fighting, and was comforted by a dream vision that instructed him to pursue his talent for art. There is a Native American story, retold by Tomie dePaola as lovely picturebook, that recounts a legend of the origin of Indian paintbrush plants, a story told by a number of North American tribes. If you look carefully you can see the green flowers Presumably the name paintbrush refers both the variety of colors and the shape of the flower head. The bracts can be any shade from white through yellow and orange to red.
The flowers are green, but surrounded by bright bracts (modified leaves) that make the plants so colorful and visible. The USDA gives the common name owl's clover to two species, calls one johnny nip and another cream sacs for another species of Castilleja, but all the rest are called some version of Indian paintbrush. North America has most of this genus, although a few species migrated to Eurasia and South America. See the diversity of the flowers in the Wikipedia article link). There are a lot species of Indian paintbrush-160 in North America!-all but a couple native to the western half of the continent (view USDA plants species maps and marvel link. Indian paintbrush, Castilleja, in western Wyoming
Also called flame flower, prairie-fire, squaw feather, and painted cups, the Castilleja species, now classified in the owl clover family, Orobanchaceae, but long considered figworts, Scrophulariaceae, are handsome wildflowers. They're a splash of orange on the mountainside or of red in the meadow: Indian paintbrushes.
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