Family | OROBANCHACEAE |
Genus species | Pedicularis capitata Adams |
Bibliography | Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 5: 100 (1817) |
Native Range | Siberia to Russian Far East, Subarctic America to Canada |
Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Habitat | grassland |
Altitude | 10-2100m |
Description | basal leaves long petiolate, pinnatisect, segments ovate-oblong, pinnatifid, dentate, inflorescence few flowered, capitate, flowers 2-3cm long |
Size | 5-15cm |
Color | yellow |
Bloom | summer |
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Type | perennial |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-16°C division in spring just as young growth commences |
Synonyms | Pedicularis grandiflora Cham. ex Ledeb. Pedicularis nelsonii R.Br. Pedicularis stelleriana Pall. ex Steven |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, KRA Krasnoyarsk, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, KUR Kuril Is., MAG Magadan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ALU Aleutian Is., ASK Alaska, GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia) 72 Eastern Canada (QUE Québec) |