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Whorled lousewort

(Pedicularis verticillata verticillata)

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Description

Pedicularis lanata is a species of flowering plant in the broomrape family, Orobanchaceae. It is native to Canada and Alaska. Its common names include woolly lousewort and bumble-bee flowerThe plant has a wooly stem 5-25 centimetres (2.0-9.8 in) tall which grows from a bright yellow taproot. The narrow leaves are lobed or compound, the lower on long petioles. The woolly, many-flowered inflorescence is dense when new, elongating with maturity. The corolla is up to 2 centimeters long and is usually dark pink, but sometimes white. It is surrounded by toothed sepals. The fruit is a flat, beaked capsule 8-13 millimetres (0.31-0.51 in) long. The seeds have a honeycomb-patterned surface.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Lamiales
Family:Orobanchaceae
Genus:Pedicularis
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