| Pedicularis kanei Durand | |||
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| Family | Scrophulariaceae — APG family: Orobanchaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Pedicularis lanata, Pedicularis wildenowii Vved., Pedicularis lanata subsp. kanei (Durand) Pennell | ||
| Description | Stem simple, mostly single, from thick, yellow taproot, with brown remains of leaf bases at base, lanate above; basal leaves numerous, linear-lanceolate, pinnately parted into many narrow, remote, pinnate to crenate-serrate segments; inflorescence dense, oblong, white-woolly; lower bracts longer than flowers; calyx with triangular, acute teeth; corolla rose-colored, glabrous, with straight tube and straight galea, lacking teeth; lower lip about as long as the upper, 3-lobed, glabrous in margin; 2 filaments pubescent; capsule ovate with acute beak. | ||
| Ecology | Dry, stony tundra; in the mountains to over 1,700 meters. Described from Green- land. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | (See color section.) | ||
| Uses | Root edible, raw or boiled. |
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.