''Pedicularis verticillata'', the whorled lousewort, is a species of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...

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 ...

which can be found in

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 ...

, North-Western

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, and everywhere in China at the elevation of . Its native habitats include moist meadows and lakeshores.

Description

The plant is a perennial herb and is high. The stems are erect at the center and have hairs which come in four lines. It leaves carry long petioles which are white coloured while its leaf-blades are oblong, lanceolate and are by (sometimes they are as wide as ). Both stem and basal leaves are of the same length while the species'

calyx Calyx or calyce (plural "calyces"), from the Latin ''calix'' which itself comes from the Ancient Greek ''κάλυξ'' (''kálux'') meaning "husk" or "pod", may refer to: Biology * Calyx (anatomy), collective name for several cup-like structures ...

is red and is long and is ovoid.

Raceme A raceme ( or ) or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are produced as the sh ...

inflorescent 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 form ...

and dense, with white coloured

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s. It

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is of purple colour and is with right tube being bent. The galea is falcate, long and rounded at the front. The plant' capsule is by , and is both apiculate and lanceolate with the

seed A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering, along with a food reserve. The formation of the seed is a part of the process of reproduction in seed plants, the spermatophytes, including the gymnosperm and angiosper ...

s being long.

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Description of how plant blooms and photos of it every day life
on Alaska Wildflowers verticillata Flora of Alaska Flora of Canada Flora of China Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Flora without expected TNC conservation status Flora of the Carpathians {{Orobanchaceae-stub

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