Pedicularis lanata |
Pedicularis aurantiaca |
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bumble-bee flower, pédiculaire laineuse, woolly lousewort |
Indian warrior |
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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. |
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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. |
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Pedicels | 2–4 mm. |
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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. |
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Pedicularis lanata |
Pedicularis aurantiaca |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | |
Habitat | Mixed coniferous forests. | |
Elevation | 600–2100 m. (2000–6900 ft.) | |
Distribution |
AK; MT; AB; BC; NT; NU; QC; YT; Eurasia
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CA; OR |
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 |
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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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