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