Pedicularis ascendens, Schleicher ex Gaudin

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 275

42. P. ascendens Schleicher ex Gaudin in Murith, Guide Bot. Valais 83 (1810)

( P. barrelieri Reichenb. ).

Stem 15-30 cm, erect, glabrous or with 1-2 lines of hairs. Leaves glabrous or slightly pubescent on rhachis, oblong-lanceolate, pinnatisect, with pinnatifid, toothed segments. Flowers in a spike, dense at first, becoming lax in fruit; bracts ovate-lanceolate, the lower pinnatisect, the upper 3- to 5-fid, with entire segments. Calyx-tube glabrous; teeth lanceolate, acuminate, entire or weakly toothed, usually ciliate, glabrous on inner surface, as long as the tube. Corolla up to 16 mm, dull yellow; tube exceeding calyx; lower lip glabrous. Capsule ovoid, shortly apiculate, twice as long as calyx. 2/7= 16. Mountain grassland; calcicole. • S.W. & W.C. Alps. Ga He It.