| Pedicularis labradorica Wirsing | |||
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| Family | Scrophulariaceae — APG family: Orobanchaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Pedicularis euphrasioides Steph. | ||
| Description | Stem single or several, from taproot, simple or often much branched, witl retrorse, white hairs; basal leaves small; lower stem leaves pinnatifid, with crenat pinnae, the upper gradually reduced; calyx 2-cleft, glabrous or somewhat pubescen at base, with 4 main veins; corolla with straight tube, yellow or reddish, or yellov with red spots above; the upper lip with pair of long teeth, the lower 3-lobed, min utely ciliated; capsule horizontal, oblong-linear, acute. | ||
| Ecology | A common plant; on tundra and in the mountains to at least 2,000 meters. De. scribed from Labrador. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. sulphiirea Hult., with corolla large (up to 20 mm long) and unicolor (sul- phur-yellow) is found on the upper Blackstone River, in the Yukon. |
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.