Pedicularis attollens |
Pedicularis palustris |
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attol lousewort, attoll lousewort, elephant snouts, little elephant head, little elephant's head, woolly Mammoth |
European purple lousewort, European purple or marsh lousewort, marsh redrattle, pédiculaire des marais |
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Habit | Plants 15–78 cm. | |||||
Leaves | basal 5–25, blade elliptic, 60–150(or 200–250) x 3–23 mm, 1- or 2-pinnatifid, margins of adjacent lobes nonoverlapping, serrate, surfaces glabrous or scattered glands; cauline 2–20, blade elliptic, 5–50(–100) x 1–5 mm, undivided or 1(or 2)-pinnatifid, margins of adjacent lobes nonoverlapping, serrate, surfaces glabrous. |
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Racemes | simple, 1–3, exceeding basal leaves, each 10–50-flowered; bracts lanceolate to triangular, 5–10 x 3–10 mm, pinnatifid, margins entire, surfaces glabrous or tomentose. |
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Pedicels | 1.2–1.6 mm. |
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Flowers | calyx 4–5 mm, glabrous or tomentose, lobes 5, triangular, 2–2.5 mm, apex entire, glabrous; corolla 6–8 mm, tube pink, rarely white, 3–6 mm; galea white or pink with 2 purple spots or stripes, 1–2 mm, beaked, beak coiled, 3–6 mm, base curving, margins entire medially and distally, apex not surrounded by abaxial lip, axis of coil nearly vertical; abaxial lip pendulous, white or pink with purple stripe, 4–5.5 mm. |
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2n | = 16. |
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Pedicularis attollens |
Pedicularis palustris |
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Distribution |
CA; NV; OR
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NF; NS; QC; Eurasia |
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). The flowers of Pedicularis attollens, like those of P. groenlandica, resemble an elephant’s head, and A. Heller placed them both in Elephantella. The short, upturned beak, in contrast to the long, more horizontal downturned beak of P. groenlandica, is a distinguishing feature of P. attollens. Whereas P. groenlandica occurs across much of western and arctic North America, P. attollens is found primarily in the Cascade Range of central and southern Oregon and the Sierra Nevada of California and Nevada. It is also reported from the Klamath Range to the west and the White and Sweetwater mountains and the Warner Range to the east of the Sierra Nevada. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 4 (1 in the flora). Four subspecies of Pedicularis palustris have been designated in Europe; North American material appears to be subsp. palustris. The overall form and habit of Pedicularis palustris are very similar to those of P. pennellii. Inflorescences of both species consist of paniculate racemes, and galea margins have two sets of paired teeth, one set medial and the other distal. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 514. | FNA vol. 17, p. 527. | ||||
Parent taxa | Orobanchaceae > Pedicularis | Orobanchaceae > Pedicularis | ||||
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Synonyms | Elephantella attollens | |||||
Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 384. (1868) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 607. (1753) | ||||
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