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Melampyrum cristatum
Crested cow-wheat is a small European annual wildflower that partly parasitises the roots of grasses and other plants through haustoria. It is grown mainly as a native wildflower in meadows and is not a typical garden plant.
Melampyrum cristatum, also known as crested cow-wheat is a species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae.
M. cristatum is native to the following places: Albania, Altai, Austria, the Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corsica, Crete, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, North Caucasus, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Siberia (western), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey (European), Ukraine, Yugoslavia.
Field cow-wheat · Narrowleaf cowwheat · Ivan Da Maria · Common cow-wheat · Small Cow Wheat · Cow Wheat
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Melampyrum cristatum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
