Melampyrum pratense L., 1753

🇬🇧 Common Cow-wheat

🇫🇷 Mélampyre des prés

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Superasterids
Clade: Asterids
Clade: Lamiids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Orobanchaceae
Tribe: Rhinantheae
Genus: Melampyrum
Species: Melampyrum pratense

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern

Notes

The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:

M. pratense subsp. commutatum (Tausch ex A.Kern.) C.E.Britton, 1943;
M. pratense subsp. latifolium Schübl. & G.Martens, 1834;
M. pratense subsp. pratense L., 1753, P.

Photographs

img/melampyrum-pratense.webp — Melampyrum pratense

img/melampyrum-pratense-2.webp — Melampyrum pratense

img/melampyrum-pratense-3.webp — Melampyrum pratense

img/melampyrum-pratense-4.webp — Melampyrum pratense - Leaf

img/melampyrum-pratense-5.webp — Melampyrum pratense - Flowers at different stages

img/melampyrum-pratense-6.webp — Melampyrum pratense - Immature seed capsules

Sources

Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 857). Biotope.