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Pedicularis hirsuta
Hairy lousewort is a low, hairy semi-parasitic perennial herb of subarctic tundra in North America and Europe, attaching its roots to neighbouring plants for part of its nutrition. It is a wild species rather than a garden plant, so care is mostly about leaving it be.
Pedicularis hirsuta, commonly known as hairy lousewort, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Orobanchaceae. It is a semi-parasitic plant.
Its native range is subarctic.
This plant is found on tundra in the subarctic regions of North America and Europe, extending southwards on mountains in northern Europe to the boreal zone.
Pedicularis asplenifolia · Little elephantshead · Pedicularis bhutanomuscoides · Bracted lousewort · Pedicularis cacuminidenta · Pedicularis caeruleoalbescens · Canadian lousewort · Dwarf lousewort · Coiled lousewort · Arctic Hairy Lousewort · Indian warrior · Pedicularis dhurensis
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pedicularis hirsuta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
