Melampyrum sylvaticum L.
(Small Cow-wheat)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesMelampyrum sylvaticum (Small Cow-wheat)
GenusMelampyrum (cow-wheats)
FamilyOROBANCHACEAE (eyebrights, cow-wheats, louseworts & broomrapes)
OrderLAMIALES (dead-nettles, eye-brights, foxgloves and speedwells)
SubclassEU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ClassMAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
PhylumTRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
KingdomPLANTAE (plants)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Tennant, D.J. 2008 Small Cow-wheat Melampyrum sylvaticum L.: Scrophulariaceae in England Watsonia Vol 27, No 1: 23-36.

Melampyrum sylvaticum (Small Cow-wheat) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Melampyrum sylvaticum (Small Cow-wheat)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 9 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Melampyrum sylvaticum (Small Cow-wheat)
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