Pedicularis centranthera |
Pedicularis chamissonis |
|||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
dwarf lousewort, Great Basin lousewort |
Chamisso's lousewort |
|||||
Habit | Plants 4–12 cm. | Plants 10–25 cm. | ||||
Leaves | basal 6–8, blade elliptic or spatulate, 35–120 x 10–30 mm, undivided or 1- or 2-pinnatifid, margins of adjacent lobes nonoverlapping or extensively overlapping distally, entire or 1- or 2-serrate, surfaces glabrous or scattered abaxial glands; cauline 0–4, blade elliptic, sometimes lanceolate, 20–110 x 5–30 mm, 1- or 2-pinnatifid, margins of adjacent lobes overlapping distally, 1- or 2-serrate, surfaces glabrous. |
basal 5–15, blade lanceolate, 15–40 x 10–20 mm, 2-pinnatifid, margins of adjacent lobes nonoverlapping or slightly overlapping distally, serrate, surfaces glabrous; cauline whorled, whorls 1–4, leaves per whorl 3–5, blade lanceolate, 10–60 x 10–30 mm, 1- or 2-pinnatifid, margins of adjacent lobes nonoverlapping or slightly overlapping distally, entire or serrate, surfaces glabrous. |
||||
Racemes | simple, 1–4, not exceeding basal leaves, each 8–14-flowered; bracts spatulate, 40–60 x 3–6 mm, undivided proximally, undivided or 1-pinnatifid distally, proximal margins entire, distal 1- or 2-serrate, surfaces glabrous, sometimes arachnoid along main veins. |
verticillate, 1–3, exceeding basal leaves, each 8–20-flowered; bracts lanceolate to subulate, 10–30 x 5–10 mm, 1-pinnatifid or undivided, margins serrate to 2-serrate, surfaces glabrous. |
||||
Pedicels | 1–5 mm. |
1.5–2.5 mm. |
||||
Flowers | calyx 17–22 mm, glabrous, lobes 5, narrowly triangular, 4–7 mm, apex entire or serrate, glabrous or ciliate; corolla 28–40 mm, tube white or pale purple, 15–30 mm; galea white or pale purple, apically sometimes dark violet to purple, 13–15 mm, beakless, margins entire medially and distally, apex arching over abaxial lip; abaxial lip purple, 1–4 mm. |
calyx 6–8 mm, glabrous, lobes 5, triangular, 0.5–1.4 mm, apex entire, ciliate; corolla 18–20 mm, tube white to pink, 12–15 mm; galea purple, 6–8 mm, beaked, beak straight, 1–3 mm, margins entire medially and distally, apex extending beyond abaxial lip; abaxial lip pink or purple, 4–5 mm. |
||||
Pedicularis centranthera |
Pedicularis chamissonis |
|||||
Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. | |||||
Habitat | Arctic meadows, tundras. | |||||
Elevation | 10–300 m. (0–1000 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; NM; NV; OR; UT
|
AK; e Asia |
||||
Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). The leaves of Pedicularis centranthera exceed the inflorescence, giving the impression that the cauline leaves are basal. Proximalmost basal leaves are distinct: brown, membranous, and spatulate with undivided and entire margins. Pedicularis semibarbata has similar basal leaves. Pedicularis centranthera occurs in evergreen forests, often under pinyon pine, juniper, ponderosa pine, and yellow pine. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Pedicularis chamissonis differs from P. verticillata by having leaves and flowers about 1.5 times larger with a galea that is extended into a conical beak, leaves lanceolate versus elliptic, and lateral lobes of the abaxial lip more than twice the size and more pendulous. Pedicularis chamissonis is chiefly an Asian species, found on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Island, and Japan; the only North American populations occur in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
||||
Key |
|
|||||
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 518. | FNA vol. 17, p. 519. | ||||
Parent taxa | Orobanchaceae > Pedicularis | Orobanchaceae > Pedicularis | ||||
Sibling taxa | ||||||
Subordinate taxa | ||||||
Name authority | A. Gray: in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 2(1): 120. (1859) | Steven: Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 6: 20, plate 4, fig. 1. (1822) | ||||
Web links |