| Pedicularis verticillata L. | |||
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| Family | Scrophulariaceae — APG family: Orobanchaceae | ||
| Description | Stems single or several, from taproot; basal leaves with long, sparsely hairy petioles, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, pinnatifid, the segments broad, toothed; stem leaves short-petiolated or sessile, verticillate; flowers verticillate, the lower remote; upper bracts shorter than flowers; calyx much shorter than tube, with tri- angular, acute teeth; corolla purplish, the tube bent almost at right angles; galea lacking teeth, the lower lip 3-cleft, somewhat longer than galea; 2 filaments pubes- cent; capsule lanceolate, acute, often bent to one side. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, rocky slopes, in the mountains to at least 1,300 meters. Described from Siberia, Switzerland, and Austria. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.