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Pedicularis attollens is a species of flowering plant in the broomrape family known by the common name little elephant's head. It is native to Oregon and California, where it grows in moist mountainous areas such as meadows and bogs. It is a perennial herb growing up to 60 centimeters in maximum height with one or more stems emerging from a caudex. The leaves are comblike, divided into many linear lobes. The inflorescence is a raceme occupying the top of the stem. The sepals of the flowers and the bracts between them are woolly. The flower is under a centimeter long and divided into a curving trunklike upper lip and a three-lobed lower lip. It is pink or purplish in color with darker stripes. The fruit is a capsule up to a centimeter long containing seeds with netlike surfaces.

Plant type

Perennial herb

Size

2 ft Tall

Plant communities

Lodgepole Forest, Red Fir Forest, Subalpine Forest, Wetland-Riparian

Caterpillars
Butterflies

Butterflies and moths supported

0 confirmed and 4 likely

Confirmed Likely

Geranium Plume Moth

Amblyptilia pica

Anicia Checkerspot

Euphydryas anicia

Variable Checkerspot

Euphydryas chalcedona

Edith's Checkerspot

Euphydryas editha