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Pedicularis attollens
Also called Little Elephant's Head, Slender Pedicularis
Pedicularis attollens is a species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae known by the common name little elephant's head lousewort. It is native to Oregon and California, where it grows in moist mountainous areas such as meadows and bogs. It is a perennial herb growing up to 60 centimetres (24 in) in maximum height with one or more stems emerging from a caudex. The leaves are comblike, divided into many linear lobes. The inflorescence is a raceme occupying the top of the stem. The sepals of the flowers and the bracts between them are woolly. The flower is under 1 centimetre (2⁄5 in) long and divided into a curving trunklike upper lip and a three-lobed lower lip. It is pink or purplish in color with darker stripes. The fruit is a capsule up to 1 centimetre (2⁄5 in) long containing seeds with netlike surfaces.
Pedicularis asplenifolia · Pedicularis bhutanomuscoides · Bracted lousewort · Pedicularis cacuminidenta · Pedicularis caeruleoalbescens · Canadian lousewort · Dwarf lousewort · Coiled lousewort · Arctic Hairy Lousewort · Indian warrior · Pedicularis dhurensis · Dudley's lousewort
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pedicularis attollens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
