Orobanchaceae
Common toothwort
Lathraea squamaria
- Family
- Orobanchaceae
- Genus
- Lathraea
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Common names
By language (30)
- Arabic
- ذؤنون الأرض
- Armenian
- Գաղտենի թեփուկավոր
- arz
- ذؤنون الارض
- Azerbaijani
- Pulcuqlu latreya
- Belarusian
- Таемнік лускаваты, Вясёлка, Грымотнік, Цар-трава
- Catalan
- Lathrée écailleuse
- csb
- Różewô wąsotka
- Czech
- Podbílek šupinatý
- Danish
- Almindelig Skælrod, Skælrod
- Dutch
- Bleke schubwortel
- English
- Common toothwort, Toothwort
- Estonian
- Harilik käopäkk
- Finnish
- Suomukka, Pähkinäsuomukka
- French
- Lathrée écailleuse, Clandestine écailleuse
- German
- Gewöhnliche Schuppenwurz, Aufrechte Schuppenwurz, Schuppenwurz, Lathrée écailleuse
- hsb
- Wšědna šupica
- Hungarian
- Kónya vicsorgó
- Irish
- Slánú fiacal
- Latvian
- Sārtā bezlape
- Lithuanian
- Gegužinė žvynašaknė, Lathrée écailleuse
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Skjellrot
- Persian
- علف دندان
- Polish
- Łuskiewnik różowy
- Romanian
- Muma păduriiy
- Russian
- Петров крест чешуйчатый, Петров Крест обыкновенный
- Serbian
- Потајница
- Slovak
- Zubovník šupinatý
- Slovenian
- Navadni lusnec
- Swedish
- Vätteros, Lathrée écailleuse
- Welsh
- Deintlys
Synonyms
- Clandestina squamaria (L.) Legrand
- Squamaria orobanche Scop.
Flowers
- In flower
- March to May (from 1,361 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Bartosz Czołczyński, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Eugene Popov, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Eugene Popov, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Eugene Popov, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Jörg Hempel, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Christian HUmmert, CC BY-SA 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Björn Sothmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Kenraiz Krzysztof Ziarnek, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Uilleam Uir, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: nz_willowherb, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Владимир Дворкин, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Radio Tonreg from Vienna, Austria, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.