Melampyrum pratense ssp pratense L.
(a common cow-wheat)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SubspeciesMelampyrum pratense ssp pratense (a common cow-wheat)
SpeciesMelampyrum pratense (Common 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)
Records of Melampyrum pratense ssp pratense (a common cow-wheat) :
1: Melampyrum pratense ssp pratense (a common cow-wheat)
31 Aug 2014 OSGR: SU00 50° 50’ N, 1° 60’ W Vice County: Dorset (VC 9) England
stunted plants, in flower and fruit, in recently thinned woodland
Image 1: Flowers - side view - white backgroundImage 2: Flowers - side view - white background (2)Image 3: Flowers - side view - white background (3)Image 4: Flowers - side view - white background (4)Image 5: PlantImage 6: Plant (2)Image 7: Plant - close-upImage 8: Plant - close-up (2)Image 9: Seed pods - side view - white backgroundImage 10: Flower and bract - highly enlarged - black backgroundImage 11: Flower and calyx - side view - highly enlarged - black backgroundImage 12: Flowers - face view - enlarged - white backgroundImage 13: Flower - side view with purple marks probably made by a pollinating bumble bee - enlargedImage 14: Flowers - side view - enlargedImage 15: Flowers - side view - enlarged (2)Image 16: Flowers - top view - enlargedImage 17: Flowers - under-side view - enlarged - white backgroundImage 18: Flower - VS - highly enlarged - black backgroundImage 19: Seed pod - half-ripe - highly enlarged - white backgroundImage 20: Seed pods - side view - enlarged - white backgroundImage 21: Seeds - highly enlarged - black background
2: Melampyrum pratense ssp pratense (a common cow-wheat)
15 Jun 2002 OSGR: SU36 51° 20’ N, 1° 30’ W Vice County: Berks (VC 22) England
Image 1: Flowering shootImage 2: Flowering shoot (2)Image 3: Flowering shootsImage 4: Flowers - side viewImage 5: Flowers - side view (2)Image 6: Flowers - side view (3)Image 7: Flowers - top viewImage 8: PlantImage 9: Plants
3: Melampyrum pratense ssp pratense (a common cow-wheat)
24 Jul 1977 OSGR: SU83 51° 10’ N, 0° 50’ W Vice County: Surrey (VC 17) England
Image 1: Flowers - face view - close-upImage 2: Flowers - side view - close-upImage 3: Plant - top view

Melampyrum pratense ssp pratense (a common cow-wheat) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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