Lathraea
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Lathraea is a small genus of five to seven species of flowering plants, native to temperate Europe and Asia. They are parasitic plants on the roots of other plants, and are completely lacking chloroph
Lathraea squamaria
Purple toothwort (Lathraea clandestina)
Lathraea rhodopea
Common toothwort. Illustration from Thomé, Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 1885
Rhinanthus
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Rhinanthus is a genus of annual hemiparasitic herbaceous plants in the family Orobanchaceae, formerly classified in the family Scrophulariaceae. Its species are commonly known as rattles. The genus co
Lathraea
…inconspicuous until it flowers. The phylogeny of the genera of Rhinantheae has been explored using molecular characters. Lathraea is the sister genus to Rhinanthus, and then to Rhynchocorys. These three genera share phylogenetic affinities with members of the core Rhinantheae: Bartsia, Euphrasia, Tozzia, Hedbergia…
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