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Greater Yellow-rattle

Rhinanthus serotinus

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 Alaska.January 500, February 369, March 578, April 910, May 1,312, June 1,430, July 1,530, August 1,316, September 966, October 721, November 394, December 308.
United States10,334
Alaska10,334
Russia3,663
Germany408
Irkutsk Oblast398
Schleswig-Holstein266
Kamchatka Krai213
Sverdlovsk Oblast170
Moscow Oblast158
Netherlands140

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

Traits

Group and habits

  • Forb or herb growth formListed by a harvested source as having a forb or herbaceous growth form.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
  • Annual plantListed by a harvested source as having an annual life duration.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
  • 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
GenusRattles · Rhinanthus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Greater Yellow-rattle with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.