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Melampyrum sylvaticum

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Wikipedia Abstract

Melampyrum sylvaticum, the small cow-wheat, is a plant species in the genus Melampyrum.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Green
Flower Color [1]  Yellow
Height [2]  24 inches (.6 m)
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Pollinators [1]  Bumblebees
Light Preference [3]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [3]  Very Acid
Soil Fertility [3]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist

Predators

Atrococcus cracens (slender mealybug)[4]
Bombus pascuorum (Common Carder-bee)[5]
Lygocoris pabulinus (Common Green Capsid)[5]

Providers

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Podosphaera fusca[6]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
2PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
5Ecology of Commanster
6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0