''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. 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 ...
which can be found in
Alaska
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, North-Western
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 everywhere in
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
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 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 s ...
is
inflorescent and dense, with white coloured
flower
A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae). The biological function of a flower is to facilitate reproduction, usually by providing a mechani ...
s. It
corolla 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 angiospe ...
s being long.
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See also
*'' Pedicularis lanata''
*''Pedicularis sudetica
''Pedicularis sudetica'', common names of which are fernweed, Sudeten lousewort, Sedetic lousewort, and Sudetic lousewort is a species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae which is native to Poland, the former Czechoslovakia, and northe ...
''
References
External links
Description of how plant blooms and photos of it every day life
on Alaska Wildflowers
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., ...
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
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