{{Short description|Species of flowering plant in the broomrape family}} {{Speciesbox | image = Rhinanthus angustifolius inflorescence - Kulna.jpg | taxon = Rhinanthus angustifolius | authority = C.C.Gmel. }}
'''''Rhinanthus angustifolius''''', the '''narrow-leaved rattle''' or '''greater yellow-rattle''', is a plant species in the broomrape family, Orobanchaceae.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eQBQEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA60 |page=60 |title=Handbook of Plant Palaeoecology: Second Revised Edition |author1=R.T.J. Cappers |author2=R. Neef |publisher=Barkhuis |year=2021|isbn=978-94-93194-39-7 }}</ref> It is an annual wildflower native to temperate grasslands in much of Europe, and north and central Western Asia. The yellow flowers are mostly visited by bumblebees.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1111/plb.12328| title = Competition for pollinators and intra-communal spectral dissimilarity of flowers| journal = Plant Biology| volume = 18| pages = 56–62| year = 2015| last1 = Van Der Kooi | first1 = C. J.| last2 = Pen | first2 = I.| last3 = Staal | first3 = M.| last4 = Stavenga | first4 = D. G.| last5 = Elzenga | first5 = J. T. M.| issue = 1| url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273158762 | pmid = 25754608| hdl = 11370/caee8d0d-9724-4056-9d45-93162a5a7afc| hdl-access = free}}</ref>
==Distribution== ''Rhinanthus angustifolius'' has native distribution in:<ref>{{GRIN | accessdate = 16 January 2018}}</ref> ;Europe *Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Norway; Sweden; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; United Kingdom, and the northwestern Russian Federation's European Northwestern Federal District oblasts and republics, including Karelia and Saint Petersburg-Leningrad Oblast. *Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland. *Southwestern Europe: France and northwestern Spain. *East Europe: Belarus; Moldova; Ukraine; and the western Russian Federation's European Central Federal District and Volga Federal District oblasts and republics; including Kirov, Moscow-Moscow Oblast, Smolensk, and Tula *Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Romania; Slovenia, North Macedonia, Croatia, and the other Balkans countries.
This annual root-parasite was formerly a widespread weed of arable land in east Britain. However, most of the remaining sites are on the North Downs, in grassland and open scrub on chalk. In Lincolnshire, it occurs on peat in an area of cleared Pteridium and on railway ballast. In Angus, a tiny colony survives in sandy coastal grassland.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://plantatlas.brc.ac.uk/plant/rhinanthus-angustifolius | title=Rhinanthus angustifolius | Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora }}</ref>
;Asia *Western Asia: Turkey *Caucasus: **Transcaucasus: in Armenia; Azerbaijan, and Georgia. **Ciscaucasia: in the Russian Federation's Eurasian North Caucasian Federal District oblasts and republics; including Chechnya, the Sochi region in Krasnodar Krai, and North Ossetia. *Pontic–Caspian steppe: western Kazakhstan; the Russian Federation's central-western Asian Southern Federal District oblasts and republics; including Kalmykia Republic and Volgograd. *West Siberian Plain: the Russian Federation's northwestern Asia region of the western Siberian Federal District; including the Oblasts of Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, and Omsk.
==Synonyms== *''Alectorolophus major'' Rchb., *''Alectorolophus glaber'' (Lam.) Beck *''Alectorolophus montanus'' (Saut.) Frits *''Rhinanthus apterus'' (''R. angustifolius'' subsp. ''grandiflorus'') *''Rhinanthus glaber'' Lam. (''R. angustifolius'' subsp. ''angustifolius'') *''Rhinanthus grandiflorus'' (Wallr.) Bluff & Fingerh. (''R. angustifolius'' subsp. ''grandiflorus'') *''Rhinanthus major'' *''Rhinanthus montanus'' Sauter (''R. angustifolius'' subsp. ''angustifolius'') *''Rhinanthus parviflorus'' Noulet (''R. angustifolius'' subsp. ''angustifolius'') *''Rhinanthus reichenbachii'' Bentham in DC. (''R. angustifolius'' subsp. ''grandiflorus'') *''Rhinanthus serotinus'' (Schönheit) Oborny (''R. angustifolius'' subsp. ''angustifolius'') *''Rhinanthus vernalis'' (Zinger) Schischk. & Sergueievkaja (''R. angustifolius'' subsp. ''grandiflorus'' *''Rhinanthus × poeverleinii'' (''R. angustifolius'' subsp. ? × ''glacialis'')
==References== {{commons category|Rhinanthus angustifolius}} {{Reflist}} *[http://www.ukwildflowers.com/Web_pages/rhinanthus_angustifolius_greater_yellow_rattle.htm U.K. Wildflowers - ''Rhinanthus angustifolius''] - ''website page''
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