Greater Yellow-Rattle

Rhinanthus angustifolius

''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.
Greater Yellow-rattle (Rhinanthus angustifolius) The inflorescence of the Greater Yellow-rattle. Geotagged,LensTagger,Netherlands,Rhinanthus angustifolius,Summer,flora

Naming

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
Greater Yellow-rattle (Rhinanthus angustifolius) The desiccated inflorescence's of the Greater Yellow-rattle that contain the capsules with the seeds. Geotagged,Netherlands,Rhinanthus angustifolius,Summer,flora,veenland

Distribution

''Rhinanthus angustifolius'' has native distribution in:
;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; 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
⤷ 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.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderLamiales
FamilyOrobanchaceae
GenusRhinanthus
SpeciesR. angustifolius
Photographed in
Belgium
Netherlands