Pedicularis lanata facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Pedicularis lanata |
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Pedicularis
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lanata
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Pedicularis lanata is a cool flowering plant that grows in cold places. It belongs to the plant family Orobanchaceae. You can find it growing naturally in Canada and Alaska. People often call it the woolly lousewort because its stem looks a bit woolly. Another fun name for it is the bumble-bee flower!
What Does Woolly Lousewort Look Like?
This plant has a stem that feels a bit like wool. It can grow from about 5 to 25 centimeters tall. That's like the length of a pencil or a small ruler. The stem grows from a bright yellow taproot, which is a main root that goes deep into the ground, like a carrot.
Its leaves are long and narrow. They can be lobed, meaning they have rounded sections. Or they can be compound, made of smaller leaflets. The lower leaves grow on long stems called petioles.
When the plant first blooms, its flowers are packed together tightly. This group of flowers is called an inflorescence. As the plant gets older, this flower cluster stretches out. The flowers themselves are usually a pretty dark pink color. But sometimes you might find white ones. Each flower can be up to 2 centimeters long.
The flowers are surrounded by special leaves called sepals. These sepals have little teeth along their edges. After the flowers bloom, the plant makes a fruit. This fruit is a flat, beaked capsule, about 8 to 13 millimeters long. Inside, the seeds have a cool pattern that looks like a honeycomb!
