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Velvetbells

Bartsia alpina

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 1,902, February 1,405, March 2,201, April 3,463, May 4,994, June 5,445, July 5,827, August 5,011, September 3,679, October 2,746, November 1,501, December 1,173.
United States39,349
Alaska39,348
Canada879
Austria581
Switzerland537
Germany410
Norway391
Italy388
France355
Russia280

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

Traits

Group and habits

  • Forb or herb growth formListed by a harvested source as having a forb or herbaceous growth form.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
  • Perennial plantListed by a harvested source as having a perennial life duration.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
  • 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
GenusBartsia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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