Plant · P-1064

Indian Paintbrush

Castilleja indivisa

Texas Indian paintbrush is a low, clump-forming annual or biennial wildflower of prairies, meadows, pastures and woodland edges across the south-central United States, grown for its bright red to orange spikes each spring. It is hemiparasitic, tapping the roots of nearby grasses for part of its nutrition, which is why it establishes poorly without an established grass sward nearby. Direct-sown among a grassy planting rather than transplanted, it returns from self-sown seed once established.