Pedicularis verticillata, L.

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

15. P. verticillata L. , Sp. Pl. 608 (1753).

Stems 5-2O(-3O) cm, erect, glabrous to crispate-hairy. Basal leaves lanceolate, pinnatifid, with ovate, crenate segments; cauline leaves in whorls of (2-)3-4, similar to the basal but with shorter petioles. Flowers in whorls in a dense spike. Bracts lanceolate, often purplish, hirsute, the lower pinnatifid, the upper crenate. Calyx often purplish, hairy only on the veins; teeth short, entire. Corolla 12—18(—20) mm, purplish-red (rarely pink or white), glabrous; tube twice as long as calyx; upper lip almost straight; lobes of lower lip rounded, not ciliate. Capsule narrowly ovoid, apiculate, almost twice as long as calyx. 2n = 12. Damp mountain grassland or tundra. Arctic and subarctic Russia; mountains of C. & S. Europe. Al Au Bu Cz Ga Ge?Gr He Hs It Ju Po Rm Rs (N, C, W).