Plant Portrait

Scientific Name:

 Melampyrum lineare

Common Name:

 Cow-wheat

Native/Alien:

 Native

Type:

 Annual

Blooming Plants

The plants are small, slender, delicate.

Cow-wheat plants

Black Mountain, June 2005
© MB Baumeister

Closeup of Buds and Blooms

The flowers are not even an inch long.

flower

Black Mountain, June 2005
© MB Baumeister

Closeup of Blooms

flowers

Black Mountain, June 2005
© MB Baumeister

Links:

 USDA PLANTS Database Record

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