Kingdom Plantae Family Orobanchaceae Rank Species | Order Lamiales Genus Pedicularis | |
 | ||
Similar Pedicularis dasyantha, Pedicularis sudetica, Pedicularis contorta, Pedicularis attollens, Lapland lousewort | ||
Pedicularis lanata is a species of flowering plant in the broomrape family, Orobanchaceae. It is native to Canada and Alaska. Its common names include woolly lousewort and bumble-bee flower.
Description
The plant has a wooly stem 5–25 centimetres (2.0–9.8 in) tall which grows from a bright yellow taproot. The narrow leaves are lobed or compound, the lower on long petioles. The woolly, many-flowered inflorescence is dense when new, elongating with maturity. The corolla is up to 2 centimeters long and is usually dark pink, but sometimes white. It is surrounded by toothed sepals. The fruit is a flat, beaked capsule 8–13 millimetres (0.31–0.51 in) long. The seeds have a honeycomb-patterned surface.
References
Pedicularis lanata Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA