indian paintbrush

Noun

• any of various plants of the genus Castilleja having dense spikes of hooded flowers with brightly colored bracts

• erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Indian paintbrush , painted cup , butterfly weed , orange milkweed , chigger flower , chiggerflower , pleurisy root , tuber root , Asclepias tuberosa