Rhinanthus minor - Ängsskallra - Kleiner Klappertopf

Rhinanthus minor, Alectorolophus minor, SE: Ängsskallra, liten höskallra,
DE: Kleiner Klappertopf, NL: Kleine ratelaar, UK: Yellow-rattle


Scientific name:		Rhinanthus minorL.
Synonym name:		Alectorolophus minor (L.) Wimm. & Grab.
Swedish name:		Ängsskallra, liten höskallra
German name:		Kleiner Klappertopf
Nederlandse naam:		Kleine ratelaar
English name:		Yellow-rattle, Cockscomb
Family:		Orobanchaceae, Broomrape Family, Snyltrotsväxter

Rhinanthus minor, Ängsskallra, Kleiner Klappertopf, kleine ratelaar, Yellow-rattle

_{Location: Jämtland, Ragunda; Date Picture Taken: July 22, 2008}


Life form:		Hemi-parasitic herbaceous annual plant
Stems:		Erect, simple or branched, 4- angular and often streaked or spotted black
Leaves:		Opposite, simple, serrate
Flowers:		Yellow flowers on a terminal raceme
Flowering Period:		June, July, August
Fruits:		Brown, flat capsule inside calyx
Habitat:		Meadow, pastureland, roadsides

_{Location: Jämtland, Ragunda; Date Picture Taken: July 22, 2008}

Derivation of the botanical name:
Rhinanthus, rhin for "snout" and anthos for flower.
minor, "smaller", superlative of parvus small, little, insignificant.

The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.
The standard author abbreviation Wimm. is used to indicate Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (1803 - 1868), a German botanist and educator.
The standard author abbreviation Grab. is used to indicate Heinrich Emanuel Grabowski / Henryk Grabowski (1792 - 1842), a German botanist and pharmacist of Polish heritage who was a native of Leobschütz (today known as Glubczyce, Poland).

_{Date Picture Taken: July 22, 2008}