Pedicularis petiolaris, Ten.

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 : 274

35. P. petiolaris Ten. , Fl. Nap. 5, Syll. App. 4: 11 (1835).

Perennial. Stem 7-25 cm, erect, pubescent to villous. Leaves glabrous except for villous petiole, 2-pinnatisect with ovate to lanceolate, apiculate, serrate segments. Flowers in a whitishlanate, capitate spike; bracts villous, exceeding the calyx, the lower leaf-like, the upper pinnatifid to serrate. Calyx lanate; teeth lanceolate, acute. Corolla up to 22 mm, deep pinkish-red; lower lip glabrous. Capsule narrowly ovoid, acuminate, somewhat exceeding calyx. Mountain meadows and stony hillsides. • C. part of Balkan peninsula; C. & S. Appennini. Al Bu?Gr It Ju.