Seen in a street in downtown Ithaca, about midday. The mouse then climbed the curb, darted across the sidewalk, and disappeared into a flowerbed.
Clustered, erect, without glands. Stems stiff, brittle, often branched, finely haired. Leaves with fine short and long hairs. Basal leaves linear, entire; upper leaves deeply divided, 3–7 linear lobes. Bracts and calyx similar, upper 1/2 usually bright red to red-orange to yellow, never purple. Flower tube twice as long as calyx, with upper tip slender and pointed. Grows in Great Basin, sagebrush-steppe, deserts. Often confused with closely related C. angustifolia.
Description from: https://www.pnwflowers.com/flower/castilleja-chromosa