Kerner's lice herb
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Kerners lousewort ( Pedicularis kerneri ) is a plant belonging to the genus pedicularis ( Pedicularis ) in the family of broomrape plants belongs (Orobanchaceae).
description
Like all lice herbs, Kerner's lice herb is a semi-parasite . Kerner's lice herb is a perennial, herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 5 to 15 cm. It forms a short, rolling "root stock" and ascending stems . The leaves are arranged in a basal rosette and consist of a long petiole and a pinnate leaf blade. The leaf blade, which is up to 7 cm long and 1 cm wide, has deeply serrated and prickly pinnate.
The flowering period extends from July to August. The inflorescence contains pinnate bracts and one to a few flowers. The zygomorphic flower has a double flower envelope . The calyx is up to 9 mm long and usually hairy downy with serrated calyx tips. The crown is up to 20 mm long and light purple, rarely white. The upper lip is drawn out into a beak about 2 mm long. The lower lip has three very broad lobes and is tilted to the right. The two stamens are densely hairy downy.
The capsule fruit is twice as long as the calyx.
Occurrence
The distribution area is from the Pyrenees to the Hohe Tauern. It includes the countries of Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland and Austria. Kerner's lice herb thrives in the alpine altitudes up to altitudes above 3200 meters on stony meadows and on debris. Kerner's lice herb avoids lime.
literature
- Xaver Finkenzeller: Alpenblumen , Munich 1985, ISBN 3-570-01349-9
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karol Marhold, 2011: Scrophulariaceae : Datasheet Pedicularis kerneri In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.
