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Little Yellow Rattle

Rhinanthus groenlandicus

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 British Columbia.January 30, February 28, March 43, April 50, May 78, June 68, July 170, August 54, September 42, October 33, November 27, December 27.
United States1,518
Canada1,417
British Columbia527
Alberta446
Nunavut238
Alaska152
Yukon117
Saskatchewan56
Northwest Territories39
Quebec38

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
GenusRattles · Rhinanthus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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