1688 Pedicularis lanata Cham. & Schlecht.

Syn.: P. kanei Durand

This widespread, arctic and arctic-montane species includes some subspecies, viz. subsp. lanata on Greenland and in easternmost Siberia and N. America, subsp. dasyantha (Hadac) Hult. On Spitsbergen and in N. Russia, subsp. adamsii (Hult.) Hult. in N. Siberia and subsp. pallasii (Vved.) Hult. in Kamtchatka. They are all mapped more or less in detail. The species s. lat. belongs to the circumpolar plants (Hultén, Circumpol. Il, p. 22 and map 13).