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bumble-bee flower, pédiculaire laineuse, woolly lousewort

Mogollon Mountain lousewort

Habit Plants 35–55 cm.
Leaves

basal 0;

cauline 10–20, blade linear to narrowly lanceolate, 15–70 x 1–6 mm, undivided, margins serrate, surfaces glabrous.

Racemes

paniculate or simple or buds present in cauline leaf axils, 3–15, each 2–12-flowered;

bracts linear to narrowly lanceolate, 2–70 x 1–6 mm, undivided, proximal margins entire, distal serrate, surfaces glabrous.

Pedicels

1.5–4.5 mm.

Flowers

calyx 5.5–8.5 mm, glabrous, lobes 2, triangular, 0.5–1 mm, apex entire, glabrous;

corolla 12–20 mm, tube yellow, 4–10 mm;

galea yellow, 8–11 mm, beakless, margins entire medially, 1-toothed distally, apex arching over abaxial lip;

abaxial lip yellow, 6–8 mm.

Pedicularis lanata

Pedicularis angustifolia

Phenology Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat Moist forested ridges and slopes.
Elevation 2000–3000 m. (6600–9800 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; MT; AB; BC; NT; NU; QC; YT; Eurasia
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from FNA
NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Michoacán)
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Discussion

Subspecies 4 (1 in the flora).

E. Hultén (1967) listed three subspecies of Pedicularis lanata, subspp. adamsii (Hultén) Hultén, dasyantha (Hadač) Hultén, and pallasii (Vvedensky) Hultén, as occurring in Eurasia; only subsp. lanata is found in North America.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Plants of Pedicularis angustifolia have two-lobed calyces, undivided linear leaves, and branched or unbranched inflorescences. The beakless galea has a single tooth on each abaxial margin at the distal tip of the galea apex.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 17, p. 524. FNA vol. 17, p. 513.
Parent taxa Orobanchaceae > Pedicularis Orobanchaceae > Pedicularis
Sibling taxa
P. angustifolia, P. attollens, P. aurantiaca, P. bracteosa, P. canadensis, P. capitata, P. centranthera, P. chamissonis, P. contorta, P. crenulata, P. cystopteridifolia, P. densiflora, P. dudleyi, P. flammea, P. furbishiae, P. groenlandica, P. hirsuta, P. howellii, P. labradorica, P. lanceolata, P. langsdorffii, P. lapponica, P. oederi, P. ornithorhyncha, P. ornithorhynchos, P. palustris, P. parryi, P. parviflora, P. pennellii, P. procera, P. pulchella, P. racemosa, P. rainierensis, P. semibarbata, P. sudetica, P. sylvatica, P. verticillata
P. attollens, P. aurantiaca, P. bracteosa, P. canadensis, P. capitata, P. centranthera, P. chamissonis, P. contorta, P. crenulata, P. cystopteridifolia, P. densiflora, P. dudleyi, P. flammea, P. furbishiae, P. groenlandica, P. hirsuta, P. howellii, P. labradorica, P. lanata, P. lanceolata, P. langsdorffii, P. lapponica, P. oederi, P. ornithorhyncha, P. ornithorhynchos, P. palustris, P. parryi, P. parviflora, P. pennellii, P. procera, P. pulchella, P. racemosa, P. rainierensis, P. semibarbata, P. sudetica, P. sylvatica, P. verticillata
Subordinate taxa
P. lanata subsp. lanata
Synonyms P. angustissima
Name authority Willdenow ex Chamisso & Schlechtendal: Linnaea 2: 583. (1827) Bentham: Pl. Hartw., 22. (1839)
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