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Rhinanthus angustifolius

Rhinanthus angustifolius

Rhinanthus angustifolius

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How common: Common

A slender annual wildflower with pale yellow, lipped flowers that appear in late summer. It often grows along roadsides, field edges, fallow ground and coastal meadows. It lives partly by tapping the roots of nearby grasses and other plants while still making its own food.

Did you know?

  • It is a partial parasite that draws water and nutrients from the roots of nearby plants.
  • The flowers are pollinated by insects.

About the species

Identification

30–50 cm tall, slender and often much-branched. Stems yellow‑green, usually with dark speckles. Leaves sit directly on the stem in pairs at the same level; they are narrow and tapering. Pale yellow flowers about 2 cm long; the tube curves upward, the top lip is humped with two tiny points, the lower lip is shorter and three-parted. Small leaf-like parts under each flower are almost yellow, and a pale yellow, swollen cup surrounds the base. Flat seed cases form inside; seeds are flat. Flowers in Finland from June to August.

Plant group

Herbaceous plants

Habitat

yards and roadsides, shore

Flowering

Jun–Aug

About the habitat

Open, sunny and often disturbed grassland: roadsides and ditch banks, field margins, fallows and coastal meadows. Common in most of the country; rare in northern Lapland.

Sources

Photo: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhinanthus angustifolius inflorescence - Kulna.jpg

Text: Pinkka: A Pohjolan kasveja - Rabelera-Ruta, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.41337

Text: Wikipedia (Finnish), CC BY-SA 4.0 https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolaukku

See also