Common (vernacular) names applied to California vascular plants
compiled by Elizabeth Painter
up to date as of May 1, 2016
Common names (also referred to as vernacular names) are applied differently at different times and places by different users. This list is compiled from many sources and is intended to be as comprehensive as possible. It is not intended to indicate which common name is correct or preferred. Please send comments about this page to Elizabeth Painter (beth.painter.48@gmail.com).
| Taxon | Castilleja hololeuca |
| group | Eudicots |
| Family | Orobanchaceae |
| Family common name(s) | orobanch; broomrape; broom-rape; broom rape; broom-rapes; ground-cone; ground cone; groundcone |
| Genus common name(s) | paintbrush; paint brush; painter's-brush; painter's brush; painters'-brush; painters' brush; painters-brush; painters brush; painted-cup; painted cup; paintedcup; Native American paintbrush |
| Species common name(s) | island white-felted paintbrush; island white-felted paint-brush; island whitefelt paintbrush; island paintbrush; northern Channel Islands paintbrush; Santa Cruz Island paintbrush |
| | | | | Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | woolly paintbrush, wooly paintbrush are applied to multiple Castilleja taxa; prairie-fire, paint-brush, prairie fire, hierba del cancer, bloody noses are applied to taxa in multiple families |
| Common name(s), rejected | not recommended: Indian paintbrush, Indian-paintbrush, Indian paint-brush, Indian paint brush, Indianpaintbrush, white-felted Indian paintbrush, white-felted Indian paint-brush, whitefelt Indian paintbrush, Sierra woolly Indian paintbrush, white-woolly Indianpaintbrush, red Indians; not recommended (possibly pejorative or derogatory): squaw-feather, squaw feather, squawfeather |
| Notes | not found in the Sierra Nevada, so Sierra woolly paintbrush, Sierra woolly paintbrush, Sierran woolly paintbrush are confusing, at least in CA |
| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | Scrophulariaceae s.l.; Castilleja lanata A. Gray subsp. hololeuca (Greene) T.I. Chuang & Heckard |
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