Pedicularis macrodonta
 
Swamp Lousewort

Whole Plant

Greenbush Bog, 20 km West of Hudson Bay, SK on Highway #3
09-July-2020

The leaves are usually, but not always, opposite.  The flowers occur in an elongating inflorescence and eventually become axillary.

Macrodonta: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora leading to this species. 

flowers in an elongating inflorescence, becoming axillary; NOT [flowers in well-defined, more or less crowded racemes]

galea not prolonged, the apex broad; NOT [galea prolonged into a tubular recurved beak]

 

Pedicularis: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora leading to this genus. 

leaves pinnately lobed or cleft; NOT [leaves simple, neither pinnately lobed nor cleft]

floral leaves or bracts usually green or brownish; NOT [floral leaves or bracts brightly colored, usually red or yellow, or shades of these colours]

corolla not spurred at the base

four anther bearing stamens and no sterile stamens

 

Scrophulariaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  leading to this family. 

herbs; NOT [shrubs or trees]

plants green or with some chlorophyll; NOT [plants parasitic or saprophytic, without chlorophyll]

plants not aquatic

stems not square

leaves not bearing bladders

flowers not in heads or spikes; NOT [flowers in long or short spikes], NOT [flowers in heads or in form resembling a head]

flowers with two floral rings

petals wholly or partly united forming a tube or bell]

corolla irregular; NOT [corolla regular]

ovary superior; NOT [ovary inferior]

fruit a many-seeded capsule; NOT [fruit with 4 nutlets]