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Greater Yellow Rattle

Rhinanthus alectorolophus

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 151, February 111, March 174, April 274, May 395, June 431, July 461, August 396, September 291, October 217, November 119, December 93.
United States3,114
Alaska3,113
Germany1,874
Austria821
Baden-Württemberg777
France575
Switzerland557
Italy551
Bayern537
Nord-Ovest342

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