Red Indian Paintbrush / Castilleja flowers. Hound's Tooth, Bugaboo Glacier, Bugaboo Provincial Park, Purcell Range, BC, Canada.

Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja) flowers bloom red under the Hound's Tooth (2819 meters) and Bugaboo Glacier in Bugaboo Provincial Park, in the Purcell Range of the Columbia Mountains, British Columbia, Canada. The Spires Trail to Conrad Kain Hut is 6 miles round trip with 2400 ft gain. Castilleja is a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas plus northeast Asia. These plants are classified in the family Orobanchaceae and are hemiparasitic on the roots of grasses and forbs.

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Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja) flowers bloom red under the Hound's Tooth (2819 meters) and Bugaboo Glacier in Bugaboo Provincial Park, in the Purcell Range of the Columbia Mountains, British Columbia, Canada. The Spires Trail to Conrad Kain Hut is 6 miles round trip with 2400 ft gain. Castilleja is a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas plus northeast Asia. These plants are classified in the family Orobanchaceae and are hemiparasitic on the roots of grasses and forbs.