Pedicularis dudleyi

Pedicularis dudleyi
Conservation status
	; Imperiled (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Orobanchaceae
Genus:	Pedicularis
Species:	P. dudleyi
Binomial name
	Pedicularis dudleyi; Elmer

Pedicularis dudleyi is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae known by the common name Dudley's lousewort. It is endemic to central California, where it is known from about ten scattered occurrences along the coast and in the coastal mountain ranges. It has been found in three locations along the Central California coast. The species was named for 19th-century Stanford University botanist William Dudley.

Description

The species is a hairy

capsule

roughly 1 centimetre (0.39 in) long containing seeds with netted surfaces.

Locations

The plant thrives only among old-growth trees, depending on redwood leaf litter and on a complex array of fungi that grows on the roots of the trees.

Santa Lucia Mountains, and one site within the boundary of Boy Scout Camp Pico Blanco. That location at the site of the former Catholic Chapel contains about 50% of the known specimens.^[2] Monterey County cited the Scouts in 1989 for their "repeated destruction of Dudley's lousewort and its habitat."^[1] When the council cut 38 damaged trees after a fire in 2003, wood cuttings were piled on top of the lousewort.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Rust, Susanne. "Boy Scouts put rare plant in danger". Center for Investigative Reporting. Archived from the original on 16 July 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
^ "California Rivers: Little Sur River". Friends of the River. Archived from the original on 1 April 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
^ Rust, Susanne. "Boy Scouts' camp endangers rare plant". Center for Investigative Reporting. Retrieved 3 July 2013.

External links

[CFIR-1] Rust, Susanne. "Boy Scouts put rare plant in danger". Center for Investigative Reporting. Archived from the original on 16 July 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.

[2] "California Rivers: Little Sur River". Friends of the River. Archived from the original on 1 April 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2011.

[rust-3] Rust, Susanne. "Boy Scouts' camp endangers rare plant". Center for Investigative Reporting. Retrieved 3 July 2013.

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