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Lousewort
''Pedicularis'' is a genus of perennial green root parasite plants currently placed in the family Orobanchaceae (the genus previously having been placed in Scrophulariaceae ''sensu lato''). Uses Pedicularis is used medicinally in teas and smoking blends. Taxonomy The common name lousewort, applied to several species, derives from an old belief that these plants, when ingested, were responsible for lice infestations in livestock. The genus name ''Pedicularis'' is from the Latin ''pediculus'' meaning louse. Over 600 species are accepted, mostly from the wetter northern temperate zones, as well as from South America. The highest diversity is in eastern Asia, with 352 species accepted in China alone. Selected species *'' Pedicularis attollens'' (little elephant's head) *''Pedicularis bhutanomuscoides'' *'' Pedicularis bracteosa'' (fern-leaf, towering, or bracted lousewort) Pedicularis caeruleoalbescens Wendelbo *''Pedicularis cacuminidenta'' *''Pedicularis canadensis'' (Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedicularis Furbishiae
''Pedicularis furbishiae'', or Furbish's lousewort, is a perennial herb found only on the shores of the upper Saint John River in Maine and New Brunswick. Furbish's lousewort was first recognized as a new species by Maine naturalist and botanical artist Kate Furbish (who named it Furbish's wood betony) in 1880. It is considered an endangered species in the United States and Canada, and is threatened by habitat destruction, as well as riverside development, forestry, littering and recreational use of the riverbank. It was formerly in the family Scrophulariaceae, but is now placed in the family Orobanchaceae. Once thought to be extinct, it is considered a Lazarus taxon. Description Furbish's lousewort is not distinguished by large and showy flowers. The Nature Trust of New Brunswick says it "averages 75 cm in height. During its first few years of growth, it forms a basal rosette of deeply incised fern like leaves. Usually after three years the lousewort begins to flower, often f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedicularis Dudleyi
''Pedicularis dudleyi'' is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae known by the common name Dudley's lousewort. It is endemic to central California, where it is known from about ten scattered occurrences along the coast and in the coastal mountain ranges. It has been found in three locations along the Central California coast. The species was named for 19th-century Stanford University botanist William Dudley. Description The species is a hairy perennial herb and produces one or more stems tall from a caudex. The leaves are up to long and divided into many toothed lobes or lobed leaflets. The inflorescence is a raceme of flowers occupying the top of the stem. Each flower is up to long and club-shaped, with a hood-like upper lip and a three-lobed lower lip. The flower is light pink or purplish with darker markings. At the base of the flowers are long-haired bracts and woolly sepals. The fruit is a capsule roughly long containing seeds with netted surface ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedicularis Groenlandica
''Pedicularis groenlandica'' is a showy flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae commonly known as elephant's head, little pink elephant, elephantella, or similar common names inspired by the resemblance of the flower to the head of an elephant. It is also less commonly known as butterfly tongue for the long beak on the flower. Like many other plants in genus ''Pedicularis'', it is a parasitic plant and depends on host plants to survive. Description ''Pedicularis groenlandica'' is an erect plant that can grow to a height of , but may be only tall. It generally has 5–20 larger leaves that sprout directly from the base of the plant (Leaf#Arrangement on the stem, basal leaves). The leaves are narrow in outline with the widest part in the middle (blade lanceolate). The leaves have a pointed tip and are 20–150 millimeters long and 5–250 millimeters wide. They strongly resemble fern leaves being divided to the leaf central leaf vein, and sometimes the leaf segments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedicularis Bracteosa
''Pedicularis bracteosa'' also known as bracted lousewort is a flowering deciduous perennial plant with alternating cauline leaves that are linear/oblong to lanceolate, approximately 1 to 7 cm long. It has fibrous roots and grows to approximately 1 meter high. Its flowers form in densely clustered spike raceme A raceme () or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate growth, 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 ..., and range in color from yellow to bronze to red to purple. Its distribution is found in western North America including New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, mountainous parts of Washington and California, and in British Columbia. Historically, the leaves have been used as an alternative treatment for skeletal muscle relaxation. Gallery File:Pedicularis bracteosa - Flickr - aspidoscelis (4).jpg, ''Pedicularis bracteosa'' leaf str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedicularis Dasyantha
''Pedicularis dasyantha'', the woolly lousewort or arctic hairy lousewort, is a plant native to the high arctic areas of Svalbard, Novaya Zemlya and the bordering mainland, and the western Taymyr Peninsula. In Svalbard it is restricted to the main island, Spitsbergen. Description The plant 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, often together with ''Dryas octopetala'' and ''Cassiope tetragona''. Like all ''Pedicularis'' it is a hemiparasite and the preferred host is probably ''Dryas octopetala''. Genetic diversity ''Pedicularis dasyantha'' shows unusually low g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedicularis Contorta
''Pedicularis contorta'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae known by the common names coiled lousewort and curved-beak lousewort. It is native to western North America, including southwestern Canada and the northwestern United States, where it grows in moist mountainous habitat, such as bogs, shady forests, and meadows. It is a perennial herb producing one or more stems up to tall from a caudex. The leaves are up to long, lance-shaped to oblong, and divided into many linear lobes which may be toothed or smooth-edged. The inflorescence is a raceme of flowers occupying the top of the stem. Each flower is a centimeter long or slightly longer, white to yellowish in color, and divided into a coiled or curved beak-like upper lip and a flat, three-lobed lower lip. The fruit is a capsule up to a centimeter long containing seeds with netted surfaces. References External linksJepson Manual Treatment [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedicularis Densiflora
''Pedicularis densiflora'', known commonly as Indian warrior or warrior's-plume lousewort, is a plant in the family Orobanchaceae. Indian warrior is native to California and Oregon in western North America and is found in chaparral, forests, California oak woodlands at low elevations. Description ''Pedicularis densiflora'' is a perennial herb with stout, green or sometimes reddish or magenta stems and fern-shaped leaves, and long spikes of deep red to bright pink flowers with toothed petals. Like other louseworts, it is a root parasitic plant A parasitic plant is a plant that derives some or all of its nutritional requirements from another living plant. They make up about 1% of angiosperms and are found in almost every biome. All Parasite, parasitic plants develop a specialized organ ..., attaching to the roots of other plants to obtain nutrients and water. This species is a facultative parasite, or hemiparasite, in that it can live without attaching to another plant but w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
