Rhinanthus angustifolius

Rhinanthus angustifolius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Orobanchaceae
Genus:	Rhinanthus
Species:	R. angustifolius
Binomial name
Rhinanthus angustifolius C.C.Gmel.

Rhinanthus angustifolius or Greater Yellow-rattle is a Lamiales plant species of the genus Rhinanthus. It is a perennial wildflower native to temperate grasslands in much of Europe, and north and central Western Asia.

Distribution

Rhinanthus angustifolius has native distribution in:^[1]

Europe

• Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Norway; Sweden; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; United Kingdom, and the northwestern Russian Federation's European Northwestern Federal District oblasts and republics, including Karelia and Saint Petersburg-Leningrad Oblast.
• Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland.
• Southwestern Europe: France
• East Europe: Belarus; Moldova; Ukraine; and the western Russian Federation's European Central Federal District and Volga Federal District oblasts and republics; including Kirov, Moscow-Moscow Oblast, Smolensk, and Tula
• Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Romania; Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia, and the other Balkans countries.

Asia

• Western Asia: Turkey
• Caucasus:
  • Transcaucasus: in Armenia; Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
  • Ciscaucasia: in the Russian Federation's Eurasian North Caucasian Federal District oblasts and republics; including Chechnya, the Sochi region in Krasnodar Krai, and North Ossetia.
• Pontic-Caspian steppe: western Kazakhstan; the Russian Federation's central-western Asian Southern Federal District oblasts and republics; including Kalmykia Republic and Volgograd.
• West Siberian Plain: the Russian Federation's northwestern Asia region of the western Siberian Federal District; including the Oblasts of Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, and Omsk.

Synonyms

• Alecterolophus major Rchb.,
• Alectorolophus glaber (Lam.) Beck
• Alectorolophus montanus (Saut.) Frits
• Rhinanthus apterus (R. angustifolius subsp. grandiflorus)
• Rhinanthus glaber Lam. (R. angustifolius subsp. angustifolius)
• Rhinanthus grandiflorus (Wallr.) Bluff & Fingerh. (R. angustifolius subsp. grandiflorus)
• Rhinanthus major
• Rhinanthus montanus Sauter (R. angustifolius subsp. angustifolius)
• Rhinanthus parviflorus Noulet (R. angustifolius subsp. angustifolius)
• Rhinanthus reichenbachii Bentham in DC. (R. angustifolius subsp. grandiflorus)
• Rhinanthus serotinus (Schönheit) Oborny (R. angustifolius subsp. angustifolius)
• Rhinanthus vernalis (Zinger) Schischk. & Sergueievkaja (R. angustifolius subsp. grandiflorus
• Rhinanthus × poeverleinii (R. angustifolius subsp. ? × glacialis)

Vernacular names

Common names for Rhinanthus angustifolius in various languages include:

• German = Großer Klappertopf
• English = Greater Yellow-rattle
• Finnish = Isolaukku
• Dutch = Grote ratelaar
• Macedonian = Голема шумарига
• Polish = Szelężnik większy
• Swedish = Höskallra

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rhinanthus angustifolius.

• U.K. Wildflowers - Rhinanthus angustifolius - website page