BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Rhinanthus minor L. (Yellow-rattle)
| Wildlife Gardening | An excellent plant for a wildlife lawn. As well as providing colour, its parasitic action keeps the grass and other vigorous plants short so enables smaller plants to flower and reduces the need for mowing. Can be hard to establish, especially if the grass is lush, but once established will keep the grass under control. It took about 8 years to establish on our lawn/meadow. Each year we'd get two or three plants. It's not related to quantity of seed (I put a lot of seed on in the first couple of years), it doesn't build up a seed bank nor does it live underground for a few years as an invisible parasite like many orchids (it's said that heavy sheep grazing can eradicate the plant in one season). It wasn't until the drought knocked the other plants back in summer 06 and spring 07 that it really got away. |
Images etc
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Seeds | 500 by 400 pixels |
Records (and photo sets)
| Taxon | Summary | Date | Vice-county | Country |  |
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| Rhinanthus minor | In flower | 19 June 2005 | Berks | England | 1 | |
| Rhinanthus minor | Plant | 14 June 1997 | Berks | England | 1 | |
| Rhinanthus minor | Plant | 9 July 1971 | East Sussex | England | 2 |
Subtaxa
| Rank | Taxon | |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Subspecies | Rhinanthus minor ssp. minor (Yellow-rattle) | 7 | 11 |
Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Westbury, B.D. & Davies, A., 2005 (Colour photograph) | Yellow Rattle - its natural history and use in grassland diversification |
Rhinanthus minor may also be covered by literature listed under:
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BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
PLANTAE (plants) |
SPERMATOPHYTA (vascular plants) |
MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants) |
MAGNOLIIDAE (dicotyledonous flowering plants) |
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Associated with Rhinanthus minor:
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(live) | live is parasitised by | Podosphaera fusca - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) | 
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Ing, B., 1990 |
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(live) | live is parasitised by uredium | Coleosporium tussilaginis - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Coleosporiaceae) | 
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Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 |
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(live) | live is parasitised by subepidermal telium | Coleosporium tussilaginis - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Coleosporiaceae) |
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Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 |
Rhinanthus minor may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
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MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants) |
MAGNOLIIDAE (dicotyledonous flowering plants) |
SCROPHULARIACEAE (figworts, foxgloves and speedwells) |
Rhinanthus (yellow-rattles) |
References
| Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 | Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook |
| Ing, B., 1990 | An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews |
| Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 | Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota |
