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yellow clustered broomrape

Aphyllon franciscanum

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.January 182, February 158, March 164, April 475, May 897, June 465, July 125, August 127, September 161, October 165, November 212, December 163.
United States2,521
California2,076
Nevada162
Oregon128
Canada112
Washington105
British Columbia71
Idaho45
Alberta41
Arizona19

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • ParasiteDescends from a lineage whose members commonly live parasitically on another organism.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderMints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies · Lamiales
Familybroomrape family · Orobanchaceae
GenusAphyllon

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise yellow clustered broomrape with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.