Orobanchaceae
Field cow-wheat
Melampyrum arvense
- Family
- Orobanchaceae
- Genus
- Melampyrum
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Common names
By language (22)
- Arabic
- قمح أحمر
- Armenian
- Կովացորեն դաշտային
- Belarusian
- Братаўка палявая
- Croatian
- Poljska urodica
- Czech
- Černýš rolní, ̯černýš rolní
- Danish
- Ager-Kohvede
- Dutch
- Wilde weit
- English
- Field cow-wheat
- Esperanto
- Kampa melampiro
- Estonian
- Põld-härghein
- Finnish
- Peltomaitikka
- French
- Mélampyre des champs, Melampyre des champs
- Georgian
- Ყანის სანთელა
- German
- Acker-Wachtelweizen, Ackerwachtelweizen
- hsb
- Rólny sparik
- Polish
- Pszeniec różowy
- Russian
- Марьянник полевой
- Slovak
- Čermeľ roľný, ̯čermeľ roľný
- Slovenian
- Poljski črnilec
- Swedish
- Pukvete
- Ukrainian
- Перестріч польовий
- Welsh
- Gliniogai`r maes
Synonyms
- Marinellia arvensis (L.) Bubani
- Melampyrum albicans Porcius
- Melampyrum argyrocomum Fisch. ex Steud.
- Melampyrum arvense f. pseudobarbatum (Schur) B.P.R.Chéron
- Melampyrum arvense prol. pseudobarbatum (Schur) Rouy
- Melampyrum arvense subsp. aestivum Govor.
- Melampyrum arvense subsp. pseudobarbatum Ronniger
- Melampyrum arvense subsp. pseudobarbatum (Schur) Wettst.
- Melampyrum arvense subsp. schinzii Ronniger
- Melampyrum arvense subsp. vernum Govor.
- Melampyrum arvense var. argyrocomum Lej. & Courtois
- Melampyrum arvense var. semleri (Ronniger & Poeverl.) Hartl
- Melampyrum barbatum Schur
- Melampyrum hybridum Wolfner
- Melampyrum pseudobarbatum Schur
- Melampyrum purpurescens Gilib.
- Melampyrum semleri Ronniger & Poeverl.
Photos
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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.