Pedicularis karoiFreyn

WFO wfo-0000471054 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pedicularis karoi, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. a Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-15 / obs. 150978775
Pedicularis karoi, photographed by Юлия
fig. b Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78492149
Pedicularis karoi, photographed by Юлия
fig. c Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150915712
Pedicularis karoi, photographed by Юлия
fig. d Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90266399
Pedicularis karoi, photographed by Юлия
fig. e Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195040730
Pedicularis karoi, photographed by Юлия
fig. f Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191938781
Pedicularis karoi, photographed by Юлия
fig. g Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157125926
Pedicularis karoi, photographed by Юлия
fig. h Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157152966

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Pedicularis karoi is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Türkiye, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutiya, Baltic States, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, Finland, Germany, North European Russia, Norway, Sweden AltayAmurBuryatiyaChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKazakhstanKrasnoyarskManchuriaMongoliaTürkiyeTuvaWest SiberiaYakutiyaBaltic StatesCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFinlandGermanyNorth European RussiaNorwaySweden
Native distribution of Pedicularis karoi, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Türkiye TUR
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK
Baltic States BLT EUROPE
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
Germany GER
North European Russia RUN
Norway NOR
Sweden SWE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 243 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -32.5 °C -22.7 °C -17.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 17.3 °C 23.0 °C 24.5 °C
Annual rainfall 310 mm 481 mm 1,084 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 13 mm 57 mm 169 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 243 research-grade observations of Pedicularis karoi that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Pedicularis borealis Steven ex Hook.f.
  • Pedicularis opsiantha Ekman
  • Pedicularis palustris subsp. karoi (Freyn) P.C.Tsoong
  • Pedicularis palustris subsp. opsiantha (Ekman) Almq.
  • Pedicularis pseudokaroi Bonati

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.