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bumble-bee flower, pédiculaire laineuse, woolly lousewort

Indian warrior

Habit Plants 10–50 cm.
Leaves

basal 1–10, blade lanceolate, 30–200 x 20–70 mm, 2-pinnatifid, margins of adjacent lobes nonoverlapping or extensively overlapping distally, 1-serrate, surfaces glabrous, hispid, or downy, abaxial veins downy;

cauline 4–20, blade lanceolate, 15–250 x 5–100 mm, 2-pinnatifid, margins of adjacent lobes nonoverlapping or extensively overlapping distally, serrate, surfaces glabrous or hispid to downy.

Racemes

simple, 1–5, exceeding basal leaves, each 10–50-flowered;

bracts lanceolate, 10–35 x 3–5 mm, undivided to pinnatifid distally, proximal margins entire, surfaces glabrous.

Pedicels

2–4 mm.

Flowers

calyx 12–24 mm, downy, lobes 5, narrowly triangular, 5.5–7.5 mm, apex entire, ciliate;

corolla 23–43 mm, tube dark red, purple, or orange-yellow, 9–17 mm;

galea dark red, purple, or orange-yellow, 14–26 mm, beakless, margins entire medially and distally, apex straight;

abaxial lip dark red, purple, or orange-yellow, 3–7 mm.

Pedicularis lanata

Pedicularis aurantiaca

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Mixed coniferous forests.
Elevation 600–2100 m. (2000–6900 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; MT; AB; BC; NT; NU; QC; YT; Eurasia
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from FNA
CA; OR
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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.)

Pedicularis aurantiaca is distinguished from P. densiflora by smaller abaxial lip lobes and longer calyces.

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

Source FNA vol. 17, p. 524. FNA vol. 17, p. 514.
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. angustifolia, P. attollens, 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. densiflora subsp. aurantiaca
Name authority Willdenow ex Chamisso & Schlechtendal: Linnaea 2: 583. (1827) (E. F. Sprague) Monfils & Prather: Madroño 54: 311. (2008)
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