Friday, September 24, 2010

Elephant's Head

This is one of my favorite flowers, I love elephants and no joke this flower resembles an elephant's head!



Common name- Elephant's Head

Latin name- Pedicularis groenlandica

Family-Snapdragon

General info- 16" with dense spike of many 3/4" pink flowers, each unmistakable shaped like an elephant's head with up-curved trunk. Leaves are fern-like, pinnately lobed, toothed.

Blooms- July through August

Habitat- Wet, high elevations, meadows, bogs, shallow streams.

Source- National Audubon Society, Field Guide to the Rocky Mountain States.

1 comment:

Teresa said...

I love Elephant's Heads, they are so fun!