Doesn't look quite like a standard-issue Indian paintbrush. The orange is more muted, and the petals look oddly felty.
It reminded me the of the yellow paintbrush we saw ~a week ago. Could it be C. purpurea?
At Slaughter Creek Trail, in south Austin
Several trees left in this construction site have P. tenuiloba surviving at their bases.
Tail and head was missing, as in someone purposely killed this rattlesnake and wanted “evidence “….