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greater broomrape

Orobanche rapum-genistae

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 101, February 74, March 117, April 184, May 265, June 289, July 309, August 266, September 195, October 146, November 80, December 62.
United States2,086
Alaska2,086
France205
Spain148
Occitanie107
Portugal99
Italy77
Germany60
Comunidad de Madrid41
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes37

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
GenusBroomrapes · Orobanche

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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