Coiled Lousewort, Coiled Pedicularis, Coiled-beak Lousewort, White Coiled-beak Lousewort

Coiled-beak lousewort is an attractive perennialwith several clusters of stems from 15-60 cm high. The basal leaves are pinnately compound with toothed leaflets and range from 5-18 cm long and 1-3.5 cm wide. The stem leaves are reduced both in number and size. The bracts below the flowers are narrow and deeply cut into 3 segments, or pinatifid or palmatifid.

The inflorescence is is an elongate raceme of white or cream-colored flowers. The 5 calyx lobes are narrow and entire with the uppermost lobe shorter. The corolla is about 1 cm long with a short, strongly arched galea which is hidden in the larger, well-developed lower lip (See photos.)

Coiled-beak lousewort may be found on wooded to open slopes and in dry meadows from moderate to high elevations in the mountains.

Coiled-beak lousewort may be found from British Columbia south to northern California and east to Alberta and south to central Idaho and northern and western Wyoming.

In the Columbia River Gorge, it may be found at 4400' of elevation on Silver Star Mt. in the southwest Washington Cascades.