山罗花 (原变种) shan luo hua (yuan bian zhong)

Melampyrum laxum Miquel var. henryanum Beauverd, p.p.; M. roseum subsp. hirsutum (Beauverd) Soó; M. roseum var. hirsutum Beauverd.

Leaf blade lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 2-8 X 0.8-3 cm, base rounded to cuneate, apex acuminate. Bracts green, acute to narrowly acuminate, with pointed teeth at basal margin or with long setoselike teeth along whole margin, margin rarely entire. Calyx lobes narrowly triangular to subulate-triangular. Fl. summer-autumn.

Thickets on slopes, among high grasses; below 1500 m. Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Zhejiang [Japan, Korea, Russia (Far East)].