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Species
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderLamiales
- FamilyOrobanchaceae
Native toAustria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany
Observations recorded401,549
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3,994
- With media
- 2,940
- Family
- Orobanchaceae
- Collections
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- Recorded in
- Mexico, Poland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, United Kingdom, Romania
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Melampyrum
- Image
- Melampyrum pratense.jpeg
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Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Melampyrum pratense, the common cow-wheat, is a plant species in the family Orobanchaceae.
The seed of the plant has an elaiosome, which is attractive to wood ants (Formica spp.). The ants disperse the seeds of the plant when they take them back to their nests to feed their young. The plant is an ancient woodland indicator, as the ants rarely carry the seeds more than a few yards, seldom crossing a field to go to a new woodland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Melampyrum pratense” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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