Pedicularis amoena, Adams ex Steven

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 : 272

16. P. amoena Adams ex Steven , Mém. Soc. Nat. Moscou 6: 25 (1823).

Stems 5-10(-20) cm, erect, usually crispate-hairy. Basal leaves linear-lanceolate, pinnatisect with linear, acutely toothed segments, glabrous or crispate-hairy; cauline leaves in whorls of (2-)3-4. Flowers in whorls in a raceme usually interrupted below. Bracts lanceolate, 3-fid with lobes toothed at the apex, crispate-hairy. Calyx glabrous; teeth unequal, the two larger half as long as the tube, more or less serrate. Corolla 15-20 mm, purple (rarely violet or white), glabrous; tube sharply inflected at the base; upper lip straight except for falcate apex; lower lip longer than the upper, with very broad lobes. Capsule obliquely ovoid, shortly apiculate, somewhat exceeding calyx. Stony lichen-tundra. Arctic Russia. Rs (N).