Cockscomb
Rhinanthus minor L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- —
Orobanchaceae
Also called Little yellow rattle, Yellow rattle, Yellow-rattle
Formerly Alectorolophus minor, Fistularia minor
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Hemiparasitic annualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to W. Siberia and CaucasusKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 佛甲草
- Arabic
- خرخاشة صغيرة
- Czech
- kokrhel menší
- Welsh
- Cribell felen melyn
- Danish
- Liden Skjaller
- German
- Kleiner Klappertopf
- Lower Sorbian
- Mała šćerkawa
- Spanish
- cresta de gallo
- Estonian
- Väike robirohi
- Finnish
- pikkulaukku
- French
- Cocriste vrai, Petit rhinanthe, rhinanthe à petites fleurs
- Upper Sorbian
- Mała hłuška
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Rhinanthus minor (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.