1697 Pedicularis sudetica Willd.

This polymorphic, mainly arctic-montane species forms a complex of several subspecies. Their distribution areas are more or less well known. They are subsp. sudetica (C. Europe: Sudeten Mts.), subsp. arctoeuropaea Hult. (N. Russia), subsp. novaiaezemliae Hult. (do.), subsp. albolabiata Hult. (through N. Siberia and northern N. America), subsp. interioides Hult. (do.), subsp. interior Hult. (northwestern N. America), subsp. pacifica Hult. (Pacific NE. Asia and northwestern N. America), subsp. scopulorum (A. Gray) Hult. (Rocky Mts.) and an unidentified subspecies in the C. Asiatic mountains. This complex has a circumpolar distribution, although with a north-atlantic gap (Hultén, Circumpol. Il, p. 44 and map 35). Cf. also Meusel et al. 1978, map p. 403.