castilleja sulphurea

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   plant of moist highland meadows having ragged clusters of pale yellow flowers

   Synonymssulfur paintbrush

   BroaderIndian paintbrush

Questions about castilleja sulphurea

What does castilleja sulphurea mean?

castilleja sulphurea means "plant of moist highland meadows having ragged clusters of pale yellow flowers".

What is another word for castilleja sulphurea?

Close synonyms include sulfur paintbrush. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is castilleja sulphurea a common word?

castilleja sulphurea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.