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bottomland broomrape

Aphyllon riparium

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) alecmck, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

24 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

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 Arizona.January 2, February 2, March 2, April 3, May 3, June 1, July 11, August 11, September 1, October 1, November 1, December 2.
United States48
Arizona23
New Mexico13
Nebraska5
California3
Colorado2
Kentucky1
Missouri1
Utah1
Indiana1

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
GenusAphyllon

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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