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painter's flower
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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any of various wild flowers, Castilleja sp., having bright scarlet to orangey floral bracts.
See: Indian paint-brush
Quotations
1908
Once across the divide, the men passed from the bare snow uplands to the cloud line, where seas of tossing mist blotted out earth, and from cloud line to the Alpine valleys with larch-grown meadows and painters' flowers knee deep, all the colors of the rainbow.