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6 unusual facts about Orobanchaceae


Aeginetia indica

Aeginetia indica is a holoparasitic herb of the Orobanchaceae family of plants, which occurs in Asia and is commonly known as Forest Ghost Flower.

Cancer root

Cancer root refers to several varieties of plants in the family Orobanchaceae, particularly genera Conopholis and Orobanche.

Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz

Schultz was a specialist regarding the botanical family Orobanchaceae.

Odontites vernus

Odontites vernus (red bartsia) is a wild flower from the broomrape family native to Europe and Asia and occurring as an alien in North America.

Pedicularis densiflora

Pedicularis densiflora, known commonly as Indian warrior, is a plant of the lousewort genus in the broomrape family.

San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex

As spring arrives and the water in the vernal pools evaporates, wildflowers – such as goldfields, purple owl's clover, and butter-and-egg – germinate in colorful patterns of thick rings or halos around the pool basins.


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Aureolaria

As a result of numerous molecular phylogenetic studies based on various chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) loci, it was shown to be more closely related to members of the Orobanchaceae.

Butter-and-eggs

Butter and eggs, one of the common names for Triphysaria eriantha, a species in Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family.

Cronartium ribicola

The aecial hosts are white pines (Pinus subgenus Strobus, family Pinaceae) and the telial hosts include wild and introduced currants and gooseberries (Ribes, family Grossulariaceae), and two genera of the Orobanchaceae, Pedicularis and Castilleja.

False foxglove

Aureolaria, another genus of plants in the family Orobanchaceae


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