other names- lousewort habitat- shade to partial shade, lower montane to montane chaparral and forest floors range- California, Oregon   description- plant hairy, pinnately compound leaves, two lipped tubular flowers in a dense spiked inflorescence, lower petal lip three lobed, upper petal beaklike and curved downward, four paired stamens   etymology- Pedicularis, from Pediculis, a parasitic species of lice infecting the human body. It was a historical superstition that livestock would become infected with lice after eating plants of this genus, thus lousewort; densiflora, from the latin, densus-thick, florus- flower  applications- antioxidants have been medicinally extracted from various species of Pedicularis

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