Pedicularis dasyantha

Taxobox
name = "Pedicularis dasyantha"


image_width = 250px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Lamiales
familia = Orobanchaceae
genus = "Pedicularis"
species = "P. dasyantha"
binomial = "Pedicularis dasyantha"
binomial_authority = Hadac

"Pedicularis dasyantha" ("woolly lousewort" or "arctic hairy lousewort") is a plant native to the high arctic areas of Spitsbergen, Novaya Zemlya and the Jamal Peninsula of Siberia.

It grows to 10-15 cm tall, with a stout stem, single or a few together, from a thick, yellow taproot. The basal leaves are numerous and pinnately divided into many remote segments. The stem has many leaves, woolly in the uppermost part between the flowers. The flowers are produced in a dense oblong inflorescence, each flower with a red corolla, with the upper tip hairy; the corolla tube is longer than the calyx.

It grows in moist places and on heaths.

ee also

*Flora of Svalbard