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Herbarium specimen: Melampyrum pratense

Taxon:Scrophulariaceae: Melampyrum pratense L. ("Common Cow-wheat")
Filed in taxon folder:Scrophulariaceae: Melampyrum pratense L. ("Common Cow-wheat")
Collected by:Mr William Charles Barton
Collection date:15/6/1915
Locality:Great Britain, VC48 Merionethshire, Arthog, SH6414, Arthog woods
ex herb:Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Mr William Charles Barton
exchanged:Watson Botanical Exchange Club
Institution:University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:Melampyrum pratense herbarium specimen from Arthog, VC48 Merionethshire in 1915 by Mr William Charles Barton.
fruits/flowers:mature flowers
notes:Corolla yellow, mouth of tube open. Apparently the only form in the neighbourhood; a few miles away the type was plentiful.
A semi-parasite, 7 like most of the parasitic plants turning black on drying.

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Documented by keith barnett on 22nd November 2008.

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