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Rhinanthus minor (little yellow-rattle; little yellowrattle)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Rhinanthus minor, the yellow rattle, little yellow rattle or cockscomb, is a flowering plant in the genus Rhinanthus in the family Orobanchaceae, native to Europe, northern North America, and Western Asia. Research at the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology has shown that encouraging yellow rattle to grow in hay meadows greatly increases biodiversity by restricting grass growth and thereby allowing other species to thrive. The seeds are spread very effectively by traditional hay-making practices.
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Infraspecies

Rhinanthus minor balticus
Rhinanthus minor borealis (Arctic rattlebox)
Rhinanthus minor elatior
Rhinanthus minor hercynicus
Rhinanthus minor minor (Greater Yellow-rattle)
Rhinanthus minor monticola
Rhinanthus minor rusticulus
Rhinanthus minor stenophyllus

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Blue-Green
Flower Color [1]  Yellow
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  This plant might be poisonous to livestock;
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Pollinators [2]  Bees, Bats
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [2]  A bright yellow dye is obtained from the leaves;
Height [2]  20 inches (0.5 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [3]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist
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Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Pyrgus malvae (Grizzled Skipper)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Plasmopara densa[9]
Podosphaera fusca[9]
Uredo campanulae[9]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 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.
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 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)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Ecology of Commanster
♦ 6Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 7HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 8Diet of the Iberian hare (Lepus granatensis) in a mountain ecosystem, Joana Paupério & Paulo Célio Alves, Eur J Wildl Res (2008) 54:571–579
♦ 9Jorrit 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