The plant has a wooly stem tall which grows from a bright yellow
taproot. The narrow leaves are lobed or compound, the lower on long
petioles. The woolly, many-flowered
inflorescence is dense when new, elongating with maturity. The corolla is up to 2 centimeters long and is usually dark pink, but sometimes white. It is surrounded by toothed
sepals. The fruit is a flat, beaked capsule long. The seeds have a honeycomb-patterned surface.
P. lanata is dependend on insect in order to set seeds.
P. lanata has a breeding system with high capacity for outcrossing in West Greenland (
Disko) and also show great morphological variation, compared to
P. flammea,
P. hirsuta and
P. lapponica. == Distribution ==