Rhinanthus angustifolius

Rhinanthus angustifolius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Orobanchaceae
Genus:	Rhinanthus
Species:	R. angustifolius
Binomial name
	Rhinanthus angustifolius; C.C.Gmel.

Rhinanthus angustifolius, the narrow-leaved rattle or greater yellow-rattle, is a 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.^[1]

Distribution

Rhinanthus angustifolius has native distribution in:^[2]

Europe

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; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; 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, North Macedonia, Croatia, and the other Balkans countries.

This annual root-parasite was formerly a widespread weed of arable land in east Britain. However, most of the remaining sites are on the North Downs, in grassland and open scrub on chalk. In Lincolnshire, it occurs on peat in an area of cleared Pteridium and on railway ballast. In Angus, a tiny colony survives in sandy coastal grassland.^[3]

Asia

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

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)

References

^ Van Der Kooi, C. J.; Pen, I.; Staal, M.; Stavenga, D. G.; Elzenga, J. T. M. (2015). "Competition for pollinators and intra-communal spectral dissimilarity of flowers". Plant Biology. 18 (1): 56–62. doi:10.1111/plb.12328. PMID 25754608.
^ "Rhinanthus angustifolius". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
^ "Rhinanthus angustifolius | Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora".

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[1] Van Der Kooi, C. J.; Pen, I.; Staal, M.; Stavenga, D. G.; Elzenga, J. T. M. (2015). "Competition for pollinators and intra-communal spectral dissimilarity of flowers". Plant Biology. 18 (1): 56–62. doi:10.1111/plb.12328. PMID 25754608.

[2] "Rhinanthus angustifolius". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 16 January 2018.

[3] "Rhinanthus angustifolius | Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora".

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