Pedicularis lanata

Pedicularis lanata is a species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae. It is native to Canada and Alaska.^[2] Its common names include woolly lousewort and bumble-bee flower.^[1]

Pedicularis lanata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Orobanchaceae
Genus:	Pedicularis
Species:	P. lanata
Binomial name
Pedicularis lanata Cham. and Schlect.
Synonyms[1]
Pedicularis kanei Dur.

Description

The 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.^[3] P. lanata is dependend on insect in order to set seeds.^[4][5]

P. lanata has a breeding system with high capacity for outcrossing in West Greenland (Disko) and also show great morphological variation, compared to P. flammea, P. hirsuta and P. lapponica. ^[6]

Distribution

P. lanata is native to Canada and Alaska, and is also found in Russia and Svalbard.^[7]