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Agrostemma githago, commonly known as corn cockle, is a flowering plant species that historically grew as a weed in grain fields across Europe and Asia. It matters because it nearly went extinct due to modern farming practices that eliminated it from cultivated areas, making it now a subject of botanical conservation interest.
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Taxonomy · GBIF
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCaryophyllales
- FamilyCaryophyllaceae
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- Parent taxon
- Agrostemma
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- Agrostemma githago 120605.jpg
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Agrostemma githago, the common corn-cockle (also written "corncockle"), is a herbaceous annual flowering plant a member of Caryophyllaceae, also called the pink family or the carnation family of plants. The name of this genus is derived from Greek: agros (ἀγρός) “field” and stemma (στέμμα) “garland, crown."
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