| Pedicularis sudetica subsp. interior Hult. | |||
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| Family | Scrophulariaceae — APG family: Orobanchaceae | ||
| Description | Stems from short caudex with fusiform roots; basal leaves glabrous, long-petio- lated, with broad rachis, pinnatifid to pinnate, segments dentate to pinnatifid; stem leaves single or lacking, short-petiolated; inflorescence pyramidal, at first capitate, in age elongated, densely woolly; lower bracts not dilated at base, lacking long lobes, middle bracts entire; calyx with triangular teeth; corolla purplish, the galea somewhat longer than tube and twisted, with pair of apical teeth; lower lip 3-lobed; filaments glabrous; capsule oblong, abruptly contracted into short beak. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, rocky slopes, in the mountains to at least 1,300 meters. P. sudetica described from the Sudet Mountains (Czechoslovakia). | ||
| Uses | The young shoots are eaten boiled in soup by the Siberian natives. |
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.