Pedicularis oederi M. Vahl
 
FamilyScrophulariaceae — APG family: Orobanchaceae
SynonymsPedicularis flammea, Pedicularis versicolor Wahlenb.
DescriptionStem thick, glabrous at base, from short caudex with several thick, yellowish- white, fusiform roots; base of leaves pinnately parted into several oblong to ovate, dentate segments; calyx with 10, more or less pubescent, veins and 5 triangular, lanceolate teeth, shorter than tube, sometimes distally enlarged; corolla glabrous, yellow, tip of upper lip brownish-red, with 2 red spots; lower lip 3-lobed; 2 filaments pubescent; capsule lanceolate-oblong, style protruding.
EcologyMeadows, rocky slopes in the mountains, to at least 1,200 meters.
Hultén's Flora About

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.