Hemp Broomrape

Orobanche ramosa

"Orobanche ramosa" is a species of broomrape known by the common names hemp broomrape and branched broomrape. It is native to Eurasia and North Africa, but it is known in many other places as an introduced species and sometimes a noxious weed.
Hemp broomrape  - Orobanche ramosa Seen in Late Minoan Armeni cemetery in Crete, Greece.  Geotagged,Greece,Orobanche ramosa,Spring

Appearance

The plant produces many slender, erect stems from a thick root. The yellowish stems grow 10 to 60 centimeters tall and are coated in glandular hairs. The broomrape is parasitic on other plants, draining nutrients from their roots, and it lacks leaves and chlorophyll. The inflorescence bears several flowers, each in a yellowish calyx of sepals and with a tubular white and blue to purple corolla.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderLamiales
FamilyOrobanchaceae
GenusOrobanche
SpeciesO. ramosa
Photographed in
Greece