| Pedicularis amoena Adams | |||
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| Family | Scrophulariaceae — APG family: Orobanchaceae | ||
| Description | Stem pubescent at base, from short caudex with several thick fusiform roots: basal leaves long-petiolated, oblong, lanceolate, pinnate, the segments linear-lance- olate, sharply dentate; stem leaves in 1 or 2 whorls, often purplish, inflorescence capitate, the lowest whorl somewhat removed; calyx nearly glabrous, with tri- angular to linear, very acute, entire or somewhat dentate lobes, half as long as tube; corolla rose to violet; tube bent; galea lacking teeth, shorter than the broad, 3-lobed lower lip; 2 filaments pubescent; capsule ovate to oblong-ovate, with short beak. | ||
| Ecology | Stony slopes, tundra. |
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.