painted cup†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any of various wild flowers, Castilleja sp., having bright scarlet to orangey floral bracts.

Quotations

1852

The high sloping hills . . . were clothed with . . . scarlet enchroma, or painted cup. . . .

1909

One day we gathered careopsis, pretty painted-cups, the dandelion in seed, shinleaf (Pyrola elliptica), our old friend yarrow, and golden-rod.

1930

PAINTED CUP . . . Often feeds on roots of other plants