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Plant of the Day
Friday 30 September 2022
The Rhinanthus minor (yellow rattle, corn rattle, hay rattle, money-in-the-purse, penny grass, rattle grass) has just about finished shedding seeds for the next season of this annual which is semi parasitic on grass.
Jill Raggett
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Yellow rattle, little yellow rattle, hayrattle or cockscomb (Rhinanthus minor) is a flowering plant in the genus Rhinanthus in the family Orobanchaceae, native to Europe and northern North America. It is a hemi-parasitic herbaceous annual plant that gains some of its nutrients from the roots of neighbouring plants.
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