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Knapweed Broomrape

Orobanche elatior

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 192, February 142, March 222, April 349, May 504, June 549, July 588, August 505, September 371, October 277, November 151, December 118.
United States3,968
Alaska3,968
United Kingdom141
England141
Germany107
Baden-Württemberg49
Poland31
Lublin Voivodeship22
Czechia20
Rheinland-Pfalz17

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