Pedicularis racemosa |
Pedicularis parryi |
|||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
leafy lousewort, parrot's-beak, sickletop lousewort, white sickletop lousewort |
Parry's lousewort |
|||||||||||||
Habit | Plants 0.5–15 cm. | Plants 7–65 cm. | ||||||||||||
Leaves | basal 0; cauline 8–25, blade linear or narrowly lanceolate, 10–80 x 3–15 mm, undivided, adjacent margins nonoverlapping, 1- or 2-serrate, surfaces glabrous. |
basal 4–20, blade elliptic or lanceolate to oblanceolate, 10–70 x 3–15 mm, 1-pinnatifid, margins of adjacent lobes nonoverlapping or slightly overlapping distally, 1- or 2-serrate, surfaces glabrous; cauline 0–20, blade lanceolate, 10–50 x 2–10 mm, 1-pinnatifid, margins of adjacent lobes nonoverlapping or slightly overlapping distally, serrate, surfaces glabrous or tomentose. |
||||||||||||
Racemes | simple, 1–4, each 3–25-flowered; bracts lanceolate, 5–40 x 3–10 mm, undivided, proximal margins entire, distal 1- or 2-serrate, surfaces glabrous. |
simple, 1–10, exceeding basal leaves, each 5–50-flowered; bracts subulate to trullate, 10–25 x 8–10 mm, undivided or +/- lobed, proximal margins entire, distal serrate or crenate, surfaces glabrous or tomentose. |
||||||||||||
Pedicels | 1–3.5 mm. |
2–3 mm. |
||||||||||||
Flowers | calyx 4.5–7 mm, glabrous, lobes 2, triangular to deltate, 0.5–1 mm, apex entire, glabrous; corolla 10–15 mm, tube white or light pink, 6–9 mm; galea white or light pink, 4–6 mm, beaked, beak sickle-shaped, 5–8 mm, margins entire medially and distally, apex not extending beyond abaxial lip; abaxial lip white or light pink, 4–5 mm. |
calyx 6–10 mm, glabrous or tomentose, lobes 5, triangular to deltate, 1–3 mm, apex entire, glabrous; corolla 14–22 mm, tube white, yellowish, or light purple to purple, 7–15 mm; galea white, yellowish, or light purple to purple, 7–10 mm, beaked, beak straight, 5–8 mm, margins entire medially and distally, apex extending beyond abaxial lip; abaxial lip white, yellowish, or light purple to purple, 4–9 mm. |
||||||||||||
2n | = 16. |
= 16. |
||||||||||||
Pedicularis racemosa |
Pedicularis parryi |
|||||||||||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
|
AZ; CO; ID; MT; NM; UT; WY
|
||||||||||||
Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). Pedicularis racemosa occurs in the Rocky Mountains from southern Canada to New Mexico, in the Cascade Range from British Columbia to California, and in mountainous areas of Arizona. Herbarium sheets of Pedicularis racemosa are sometimes misidentified as P. contorta or P. groenlandica, but the calyx has two lobes, not five as in the latter species. The uncoiled beak also bends downward from an undomed galea, which the large lateral lobes of the abaxial lip often conceal, whereas the coiled beaks of P. contorta and P. groenlandica are very noticeable. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora). Pedicularis parryi is characterized by a domed galea with a conical beak and light green calyces and floral bracts with dark purple stripes. The beaked galea extends well beyond the expanded lobes of the abaxial lip. Pedicularis parryi is an alpine complex. Corolla color, number of cauline leaves, and bract margin variation are important features differentiating infraspecific taxa within P. parryi (G. D. Carr 1971, from which the following key is adapted). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
||||||||||||
Key |
|
|
||||||||||||
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 530. | FNA vol. 17, p. 528. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Orobanchaceae > Pedicularis | Orobanchaceae > Pedicularis | ||||||||||||
Sibling taxa | ||||||||||||||
Subordinate taxa | ||||||||||||||
Name authority | Douglas ex Bentham: in W. J. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 108. (1838) | A. Gray: Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser. 2, 34: 250. (1862) | ||||||||||||
Web links |