Rhinanthus minorL.

Yellow Rattle

WFO wfo-0000747233 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Rhinanthus minor, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. a Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205161064
Rhinanthus minor, photographed by Ian Manning
fig. b Ian Manning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205637868
Rhinanthus minor, photographed by Randal
fig. c Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205152634
Rhinanthus minor, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. d Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202716888
Rhinanthus minor, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. e Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205822811
Rhinanthus minor, photographed by Antony Coombs
fig. f Antony Coombs, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202541381
Rhinanthus minor, photographed by ahabo
fig. g ahabo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204929048
Rhinanthus minor, photographed by David Sandler
fig. h David Sandler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202448306

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Flowering n = 1,723 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 1,723 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 94 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Alectorolophus alpinus Rchb.
  • Alectorolophus buccalis Heynh.
  • Alectorolophus crista-galli (L.) M.Bieb.
  • Alectorolophus drummond-hayi (F.B.White) Sterneck
  • Alectorolophus glaber All.
  • Alectorolophus glandulosus Sterneck
  • Alectorolophus glandulosus var. malyi Behrendsen & Semler
  • Alectorolophus grandiflorus var. glabratus (Lam.) Wallr.
  • Alectorolophus groenlandicus var. drummond-hayi (F.B.White) Ostenf.
  • Alectorolophus kyrollae (Chabert) Sterneck
  • Alectorolophus longibracteatus Kociejotoski
  • Alectorolophus minor (L.) Dumort.
  • Alectorolophus minor (L.) Wimm. & Grab.
  • Alectorolophus minor var. fallax Wimm. & Grab.
  • Alectorolophus monticola Sterneck
  • Alectorolophus parviflorus Wallr.
  • Alectorolophus parviflorus prol. fallax (Wimm. & Grab.) Rouy
  • Alectorolophus parviflorus var. rusticulus (Chabert) Rouy
  • Alectorolophus parviflorus var. stenophyllus (Schur) Rouy
  • Alectorolophus personatus Behrendsen & Sterneck
  • Alectorolophus phallax var. hispanicus Sennen & Elías
  • Alectorolophus pulchella Schumach. ex Wimm.
  • Alectorolophus ramosus Schur
  • Alectorolophus rigidus (Chabert) Sterneck

and 70 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.