DCHP-1 Online
painted cup † 
any of various wild flowers, Castilleja sp., having bright scarlet to orangey floral bracts.
See also: Indian paint-brush
- 1852 (1881) The high sloping hills . . . were clothed with . . . scarlet enchroma, or painted cup. . . .
- 1909 One day we gathered careopsis, pretty painted-cups, the dandelion in seed, shinleaf (Pyrola elliptica), our old friend yarrow, and golden-rod.
- 1930 PAINTED CUP . . . Often feeds on roots of other plants
- 1852 (1881) The high sloping hills . . . were clothed with . . . scarlet enchroma, or painted cup. . . .