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bumble-bee flower, pédiculaire laineuse, woolly lousewort

beefsteak plant, Canadian lousewort, forest lousewort, pédiculaire du Canada, wood betony

Habit Plants 4–50 cm.
Leaves

basal 2–20, blade lanceolate, 15–100 x 3–40 mm, 1- or 2-pinnatifid, margins of adjacent lobes nonoverlapping or slightly overlapping distally, 1- or 2-serrate, surfaces glabrous or hispid;

cauline 1–10, blade lanceolate, 10–70 x 5–20 mm, 1-pinnatifid, margins of adjacent lobes nonoverlapping or slightly overlapping distally, 1- or 2-serrate, surfaces glabrous or hispid.

Racemes

simple, 1–5, exceeding basal leaves, each 10–40-flowered;

bracts lanceolate, ovate, spatulate, or trullate, 5–40 x 1–10 mm, undivided proximally, undivided to 1-pinnatifid distally, proximal margins entire, distal 1- or 2-serrate, sometimes crenate, surfaces glabrous or hispid to tomentose.

Pedicels

1.5–2 mm.

Flowers

calyx 7–12 mm, glabrous, hispid, or tomentose, lobes 2, triangular, 0.5–2 mm, apex entire, glabrous or ciliate;

corolla 18–25 mm, tube yellow, 8–15 mm;

galea yellow, yellow with red veins, or red, sometimes purple, 10–14 mm, beakless, margins entire medially, 1-toothed distally, apex arching over abaxial lip;

abaxial lip expanded, yellow or white, 6–7 mm.

2n

= 16.

Pedicularis lanata

Pedicularis canadensis

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Deciduous forests, forest edges, prairies, alpine wet meadows.
Elevation 70–2500 m. (200–8200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; MT; AB; BC; NT; NU; QC; YT; Eurasia
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AL; AR; CO; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; VA; VT; WI; WV; MB; NB; ON; QC; Mexico
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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 canadensis is chiefly of the Midwestern prairies; in eastern states and provinces, it grows in forest openings and along forest edges. It also inhabits alpine wet meadows at higher elevations along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Corollas may be yellow, yellow with red veins, red (forma praeclara A. H. Moore), or bicolored with a yellow corolla tube, yellow abaxial lip, and red galea (forma bicolor Farwell).

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

Source FNA vol. 17, p. 524. FNA vol. 17, p. 517.
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. aurantiaca, P. bracteosa, 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. canadensis var. dobbsii, P. canadensis subsp. fluviatilis, P. canadensis var. fluviatilis
Name authority Willdenow ex Chamisso & Schlechtendal: Linnaea 2: 583. (1827) Linnaeus: Mant. Pl. 1: 86. (1767)
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