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Large-Bract Eyebright

Euphrasia pectinata

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) jordi_espar, some rights reserved (CC BY)

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 46, February 34, March 53, April 83, May 120, June 131, July 140, August 120, September 88, October 66, November 36, December 28.
United States944
Alaska944
Russia40
Ukraine26
Autonomous Republic of Crimea15
Irkutsk Oblast13
Kharkiv Oblast6
Altai Krai5
China4
France3

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

Traits

Group and habits

  • Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • ParasiteDescends from a lineage whose members commonly live parasitically on another organism.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderMints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies · Lamiales
Familybroomrape family · Orobanchaceae
Genuseyebrights · Euphrasia

Sources

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