Species of flowering plant in the broomrape family Orobanchaceae
Yellow rattle
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Eudicots
Clade:
Asterids
Order:
Lamiales
Family:
Orobanchaceae
Genus:
Rhinanthus
Species:
R. minor
Binomial name
Rhinanthus minor
L.
Synonyms
see main article
Rhinanthus minor, known as yellow rattle,[note 1] is a herbaceous wildflower in the genus Rhinanthus in the family Orobanchaceae (the broomrapes). It has circumpolar distribution in Europe, Russia, western Asia, and northern North America.[2] An annual plant, yellow rattle grows up to 10–50 centimetres (3.9–19.7 in) tall, with upright stems and opposite, simple leaves. The fruit is a dry capsule, with loose, rattling seeds.
The preferred habitat of Rhinanthus minor is dry fields or meadows; it tolerates a wide range of soil types. It flowers in the summer between May and September. It is hemiparasitic, notably on Poaceae (grasses) and Fabaceae (legumes), and farmers consider it to be a pest, as it reduces grass growth.
Yellow rattle is used to create or restore wildflower meadows, where it maintains species diversity by suppressing dominant grasses and the recycling of soil nutrients. The seed is sown thinly onto grassland from August to November—to germinate the following spring, the seeds need to remain in the soil throughout the winter months.
^Press 1993, p. 242.
^ abUSDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Rhinanthus minor". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
^"Rhinanthus minor ssp. minor L." Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved 17 November 2021.
^"Yellow Rattle (Cockscomb, Rattle Basket, Hay Rattle)". The Tortoise Table. 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
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productive pasture, though hay meadows - containing species such as Rhinanthusminor (yellow rattle) and Galium verum (lady’s bedstraw)- occur in places...
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(May 1978). "Pollination, Hybridization and Ethological Isolation of Rhinanthusminor and R. serotinus ( Rhinanthoideae: Scrophulariaceae) by Bumblebees...
Alchemilla glabra, Carex pallescens, Genista anglica, Pseudorchis albida, Rhinanthusminor, Stachys officinalis and Viola lutea. At some sites in Ireland, V. orobus...
contain common spotted orchid, dactylorhiza fuchsia, yellow rattle, rhinanthusminor. Peony Border - has around 70 different varieties of peony Pinetum-...
apifera), although these may be absent at other times. Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthusminor) also grows here, a plant that is parasitic on various grasses and...
using DNA markers. Three assemblages can be distinguished in this tribe: Rhinanthus is the sister genus to Lathraea, and then to Rhynchocorys. These taxa...
tinctoria, both uncommon in Northumberland, as well as yellow rattle Rhinanthusminor, common knapweed Centaurea nigra, common milkwort Polygala vulgaris...
found in dry, grass-dominated meadows. The larvae feed on the seeds of Rhinanthusminor. Prout, L. B. 1912–16. Geometridae. In A. Seitz (ed.) The Macrolepidoptera...
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