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Pedicularis centranthera
Also called Pinyon Juniper Lousewort, Great Basin Lousewort
Pedicularis centranthera is a species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae known by the common names dwarf lousewort and Great Basin lousewort. It is native to the western United States from eastern Oregon and California to Colorado and New Mexico, where it grows in sagebrush and other basin and plateau habitat.
The native range for dwarf lousewort is the western United States including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. In California it grows only in the northeast the Warner Mountains and the Modoc Plateau. In Oregon it similarly is reported in just Lake and Harney counties in the southwest of the state. It is found in the western two-thirds of Nevada and southern Utah. It is reported in many of the counties of Arizona, five in the northwest of New Mexico, and five in western Colorado.
Pedicularis asplenifolia · Little elephantshead · Pedicularis bhutanomuscoides · Bracted lousewort · Pedicularis cacuminidenta · Pedicularis caeruleoalbescens · Canadian lousewort · Coiled lousewort · Arctic Hairy Lousewort · Indian warrior · Pedicularis dhurensis · Dudley's lousewort
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pedicularis centranthera 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.
