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Hairy Broomrape

Orobanche pubescens

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 Greece.January 0, February 3, March 40, April 175, May 94, June 3, July 0, August 0, September 0, October 0, November 0, December 0.
Greece315
Peloponisos-W. Greece & Ionian100
Crete97
Egean78
Turkey55
Ukraine40
İstanbul30
Attica26
Autonomous Republic of Crimea25
Croatia20

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