Knapweed Broomrape - Orobanche elatior
Stems slightly swollen at the base, usually glandular hairy, reddish or yellowish brown. Scale-leaves triangular-lanceolate. Bracts lanceolate and as long as the flowers. Flowers dull yellow often tinged with pink, 18 to 25 mm long, curved, the upper lip toothed, the lower without a hairy margin. Stigma yellow.
Mostly with members of the Knapweed family.
June and July.
Parasitic mostly on members of the Knapweed family.
Scattered in southern Britain north to Cumbria and North Yorkshire.
Rare in Leicestershire and Rutland. This is the first Leicestershire record. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.
Mark Skevington
Ketton Quarry
01 July 2012
Sally Cunningham
Narborough Bog
18 June 2014
Mark Skevington
Narborough Bog
03 July 2011
first record for Leics.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Knapweed Broomrape
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Lamiales
- Family:
- Orobanchaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 13
- First record:
- 03/07/2011 (Skevington, Mark)
- Last record:
- 01/06/2020 (Grimes, Martin)
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Mark Skevington
Narborough Bog
03 July 2011
growing with Common Knapweed.1st Leics. record
Sally Cunningham
Narborough Bog
18 June 2014
Sally Cunningham
Narborough Bog
18 June 2014
Sally Cunningham
Narborough Bog
18 June 2014
