| Pedicularis capitata Adams | |||
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| Family | Scrophulariaceae — APG family: Orobanchaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Pedicularis nelsonii R. Br. | ||
| Description | Stem pubescent with septate hairs, single, from thin rhizome; basal leaves long- petiolated, oblong in outline, pinnate, the pinnae pinnately cleft, the ultimate seg- ments callus-toothed; stem leaves 1 to 2, less dissected and shorter-petiolated; in- florescence capitate; bracts pinnatifid; calyx with leaflike lobes; corolla yellowish or the upper lip becoming rose-colored in age; upper lip large, broad, curved, with very short beak, the lip twice as long as the straight tube; lower lip 3-cleft, pubes- cent at throat, half as long as the upper; filaments pubescent at base. | ||
| Ecology | Rocky slopes, ridges, in the mountains, to at least 2,000 meters. | ||
| 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.