''Pedicularis lanata'' is a species of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

in the family

Orobanchaceae Orobanchaceae, the broomrapes, is a family of mostly parasitic plants of the order Lamiales, with about 90 genera and more than 2000 species. Many of these genera (e.g., ''Pedicularis'', ''Rhinanthus'', ''Striga'') were formerly included in the ...

. It is native to

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

and

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., ...

. Its common names include woolly lousewort and bumble-bee flower.

Description

The plant has a wooly stem 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 An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

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

sepal A sepal () is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants). Usually green, sepals typically function as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in bloom., p. 106 The term ''sepalum'' was coined b ...

s. The fruit is a flat, beaked capsule long. The seeds have a honeycomb-patterned surface.''Pedicularis lanata''.
Central Yukon Species Inventory Project (CYSIP). Dempster Country. Accessed November 2, 2013. ''P. lanata'' is dependend on insect in order to set seeds. ''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''.

Distribution

''P. lanata'' is native to Canada and Alaska, and is also found in

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and

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15350466 lanata Flora of Alaska Flora of Canada Flora without expected TNC conservation status Flora of Greenland