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Cream Sacs
Castilleja rubicundula
  
About Cream Sacs (Castilleja rubicundula) 0 Nurseries Carry This Plant Castilleja rubicundula is a species of Indian paintbrush known by the common name cream sacs. This wildflower is native to northern California and southern Oregon, where it lives on coastal and inland grasslands. It is a hairy, hairy annual growing to about half a meter in height, the stem leafy with lance-shaped foliage. It produces a terminal flower cluster and sometimes branches off several more flower clusters. The white, pink, yellow, or bicolored flowers are divided into usually three pouches, making them look inflated. Each pouch is about a centimeter wide and half a centimeter deep. Each flower has a beak extending about half a centimeter above the pouches. The fruit is a capsule containing tiny seeds less than a millimeter long. Under magnification the seed's honeycomb-patterned coat is visible.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Annual Herb

Size
Size
1.6 - 2.3 ft tall

Flower Color
Flower Color
Yellow, Cream, Pink, White

Wildlife Supported
 


Landscaping Information
Sun
Sun
Full Sun

Common uses
Common uses
Butterfly Gardens

Natural Setting
Site Type
Site Type
Open grassy places

Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 13.7" - 114.0", Summer Precipitation: 0.18" - 3.40", Coldest Month: 31.3" - 51.7", Hottest Month: 53.9" - 75.4", Humidity: 0.01" - 24.26", Elevation: 1" - 6343"


Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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