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Rhinanthus angustifolius

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Family
  
Orobanchaceae

Scientific name
  
Rhinanthus angustifolius

Order
  
Lamiales

Genus
  
Rhinanthus

Rank
  
Species

Rhinanthus angustifolius Narrowleaved Rattle Rhinanthus angustifolius Flowers NatureGate

Similar
  
Rhinanthus, Rhinanthus minor, European yellow rattle, Melampyrum pratense, Melampyrum

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Rhinanthus angustifolius or Greater Yellow-rattle is a Lamiales plant species of the genus Rhinanthus. It is an annual wildflower native to temperate grasslands in much of Europe, and north and central Western Asia. The yellow flowers are mostly visited by bumblebees.

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Distribution

Rhinanthus angustifolius has native distribution in:

Europe
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  • Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Norway; Sweden; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; United Kingdom, and the northwestern Russian Federation's European Northwestern Federal District oblasts and republics, including Karelia and Saint Petersburg-Leningrad Oblast.
  • Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland.
  • Southwestern Europe: France
  • East Europe: Belarus; Moldova; Ukraine; and the western Russian Federation's European Central Federal District and Volga Federal District oblasts and republics; including Kirov, Moscow-Moscow Oblast, Smolensk, and Tula
  • Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Romania; Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia, and the other Balkans countries.
    • Asia
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  • Western Asia: Turkey
  • Caucasus:
  • Transcaucasus: in Armenia; Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
  • Ciscaucasia: in the Russian Federation's Eurasian North Caucasian Federal District oblasts and republics; including Chechnya, the Sochi region in Krasnodar Krai, and North Ossetia.
  • Pontic-Caspian steppe: western Kazakhstan; the Russian Federation's central-western Asian Southern Federal District oblasts and republics; including Kalmykia Republic and Volgograd.
  • West Siberian Plain: the Russian Federation's northwestern Asia region of the western Siberian Federal District; including the Oblasts of Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, and Omsk.

    • Synonyms

    Rhinanthus angustifolius Rhinanthus serotinus Hskallra Greater Yellowrattle

  • Alectorolophus major Rchb.,
  • Alectorolophus glaber (Lam.) Beck
  • Alectorolophus montanus (Saut.) Frits
  • Rhinanthus apterus (R. angustifolius subsp. grandiflorus)
  • Rhinanthus glaber Lam. (R. angustifolius subsp. angustifolius)
  • Rhinanthus grandiflorus (Wallr.) Bluff & Fingerh. (R. angustifolius subsp. grandiflorus)
  • Rhinanthus major
  • Rhinanthus montanus Sauter (R. angustifolius subsp. angustifolius)
  • Rhinanthus parviflorus Noulet (R. angustifolius subsp. angustifolius)
  • Rhinanthus reichenbachii Bentham in DC. (R. angustifolius subsp. grandiflorus)
  • Rhinanthus serotinus (Schönheit) Oborny (R. angustifolius subsp. angustifolius)
  • Rhinanthus vernalis (Zinger) Schischk. & Sergueievkaja (R. angustifolius subsp. grandiflorus
  • Rhinanthus × poeverleinii (R. angustifolius subsp. ? × glacialis)

    • Vernacular names

    Common names for Rhinanthus angustifolius in various languages include:

  • German = Großer Klappertopf
  • English = Greater Yellow-rattle
  • Finnish = Isolaukku
  • Dutch = Grote ratelaar
  • Macedonian = Голема шумарига
  • Polish = Szelężnik większy
  • Swedish = Höskallra

    • References

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