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Crested Cow-wheat

Melampyrum cristatum

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 588, February 434, March 680, April 1,070, May 1,543, June 1,683, July 1,800, August 1,548, September 1,137, October 849, November 464, December 362.
United States12,158
Alaska12,158
Russia631
Germany294
France119
Bayern101
Sweden100
Denmark97
Midtjylland95
United Kingdom89

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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
Genuscow-wheats · Melampyrum

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