Freshly gathered wild, the Indian paintbrush is rare and is one of the best looking flowers in the desert, it is sure to lighten up any flower bed with striking colors. very unique plant that also has some medicinal uses
 

This Indian paintbrush is under half a meter in height and has bristly gray-green to purple-red herbage. It stands in a clump of erect stems, each topped with an inflorescence of somewhat tubular yellow green flowers. The flowers are encased in bright red to orange-red bracts, sometimes tinted with purple, and usually fuzzy with a thin coat of white hairs. It flowers from May to September. The brightly colored bracts are used to attach pollinators like hummingbirds and butterflies that would otherwise ignore the plant's small yellow green flowers. The centimeter-long capsule fruits contain honeycomb-patterned seeds. This plant can be red, orange, or yellow in color, usually red