Pedicularis flammea, 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

14. P. flammea L. , Sp. Pl. 608 (1753).

Stem 2-10 cm, erect, glabrous, leafy. Basal leaves lanceolate, pinnatisect, with broadly ovate, acuminately dentate segments, glabrous, shorter than stem. Flowers in a lax, glabrous or subglabrous spike. Bracts linear-lanceolate, more or less toothed, sparsely ciliate, exceeding the calyx. Calyx glabrous, often red-spotted; teeth lanceolate, acute, serrate, unequal. Corolla 10-12 mm, yellow but with most of the upper lip dark red, glabrous; upper lip straight except for curved apex; lobes of lower lip acute. Capsule narrowly ovoid, obliquely rostrate, at least twice as long as calyx. 2« = 16. Damp places; usually calcicole. Iceland; mountains of N. Fennoscandia. Is No Su. (Arctic and subarctic America.)