Excellent as a cut flower or the broken parks used in decorations. A decoction of seeds has been taken as a cough medicine. Special features & uses: The Gitksan, Nitinaht, and Nlaka'pamux Pacific Northwest peoples have taken a decoction of the entire plant to treat bleeding lungs, sore eyes, and backaches, as a diuretic and as a purgative.Native habitat/range: Common in coastal areas, meadow, moist riverbanks, and alpine forests from Alaska to California and east to the Rocky Mountains and Ontario, Canada.Wildlife support: attracts and supports hummingbirds, host plant to several species of native butterflies and moth larva.Growth rate/ease: moderate growth rate, difficult to cultivate.Moisture requirements: moist to dry soil.
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Light requirements: full sun to part shade.Size at maturity: 8"-32" tall, eventually forming clumps ranging in size.
Plant type/canopy layer: deciduous, perennial, herbaceous plant.Its summer-blooming flower heads stand 1-2ft tall and range from deep red, to pink, and even yellow-orange - yet most of what we see are actually showy bracts obscuring hundreds of tiny, hidden flowers beneath. This stunning wildflower is truly one of a kind adored by hummingbirds, a larval host plant for many species of native butterflies and moths - plus, it’s parasitic (WOW)! It requires an appropriate host to survive and can be challenging to cultivate (see detailed info below). The XL bandpot is a slightly smaller plant, but will be co-potted with a host species (yet to be determined, customers will not know what the mystery additional host plant will be until pick-up). rhexifolia as well.NOTE - we are offering two sizes the 3.5" pot and the XL bandpot. This species seems to commonly hybridize with C. Visit the E-Flora species gallery f or photos of the many different colours and sizes of common red paintbrush. This species contains three subspecies ( click here to see a list, and maps of their ranges), and is highly variable. Additionally, common paintbrush bracts usually have one or two pairs of sharp teeth or lobes (or are sharply pointed if entire), whereas unalaska paintbrush bracts tend to be rounded and entire, or sometimes with short blunt lobes or teeth. Unalaska paintbrush is does co-occur in the region, but is distinguished from the common red paintbrush by its greenish-yellow 'flowers' (tufts of bracts). Alpine paintbrush may extend northwards, but at much higher elevations. Both harsh and alpine paintbrush are restricted to a more southern range, not usually ranging further north than northern Vancouver Island. unalaschcensis). Small-flowered paintbrush is generally found only at higher elevations, in subalpine and alpine meadows.
rhexifolia), and unalaska paintbrush ( C. There are a few similar species in the same genus that may be found on the Central Coast, including the small-flowered paintbrush ( C. It is less frequent towards the north of its range and on Haida Gwaii. It grows from low to subalpine elevations. The common red paintbrush is broadly distributed, ranging north to Alaska and the Yukon Territory, east across the Canadian prairies to western Ontario, and southeast to the central US, including North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. This species can be found in numerous habitats throughout BC, including open woods, wet and dry meadows, fens, grassy slopes, tidal marshes, clearings, roadsides, thickets, and gravel bars. This perennial plant grows 20-80 cm tall from a woody base, and may grow singly or in clusters.
The dark-coloured stems bear 3-10 cm long lance-shaped, pointed leaves. The bracts can vary from light orange to bright red or scarlet, and can occasionally be yellow, while the small flowers are green and tubular, appearing somewhat leaf-like among the bracts. Common red paintbrush is most easily identified by the vibrant red-hued tuft topping each stem, like the end of a paintbrush this structure looks like a flower but is actually a cluster of bracts surrounding the plant's many small, inconspicuous flowers.
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