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Yellow rattle



         


Yellow rattle
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Scrophulariales
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Genus: Rhinanthus
Species: minor
Binomial name

  Rhinanthus minor

Yellow rattle, (Rhinanthus minor), from the family of Figwort, (Scrophulariaceae), is so called in English because the yellow seeds of the flower rattle in their pods. Its preferred habitat is dry fields or meadows, where it can grow up to 24 inches tall in its flowering period between June and September.





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