Pedicularis racemosa
Sickletop Lousewort

Family: Scrophulariaceae (Figwort family)

Photo taken at Swauk Pass, shady wooded area

Flowers:

corolla 10 to 16 mm, white to pink or purplish; the galea strongly arched and tapering into a slender downcurved beak; calyx 4 to 8 mm, 2 calyx lobes

Leaves:

cauline leaves generally 2 to 10 cm long by 0.5 to 1.5 cm wide; more or less lanceolate, single or double toothed

Plant:

perennial; 12 to 80 cm tall; few to many stems, more or less decumbent, branched above

Habitat:

usually conifer woods

Distribution of species:

California to western Canada, to Wyoming and New Mexico

Distribution of genus:

more or less 500 species: cool, wet northern temperate, circumboreal, and in South America