painter's brush†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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

Quotations

1902

Ah! what is that little indurated line . . . winds in an out among the devil's-club and painter's-brush . . . and heather?

1938

. . . two of the ladies succeeded in gathering bouquets of . . . flaming painter's brush.