| Pedicularis groenlandica Retz. | |||
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| Family | Scrophulariaceae — APG family: Orobanchaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Elephantella groenlandica (Retz.) Rydb. | ||
| Common name | elephant’s head | ||
| Description | Stem single or few together, from stout caudex; basal leaves long-petiolated, pinnate, the pinnae strongly serrate or incised; stem leaves several, gradually re- duced; inflorescence elongate; calyx with short, triangular, entire teeth; corolla pink to purple, the upper lip with short, hooded part, elongated into long, slender, up- ward-curved beak, the lower lip small, 3-lobed. | ||
| Ecology | Wet meadows. Described from Greenland, where it occurs in a single locality. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | (See color section. ) |
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.