Names: Rhinanthus major; Alecterolophus major.
English: Yellow rattle.
Dutch: Ratelaar; Hanekam; Kloppers; Klapperhooi; Borzekenskruid; Tessen; Neusbloem; Voinkies; Leeuwebekjes; Papenneuzekens.
French: Rhinante; Herbe de St Pierre.
Culture: haan 3 maal kraaien; Allecto, one of the furies punishing humans for their crimes.
Source: Culpepper.
Botany: annual hemiparasitic herbGenus: ± 30-40 species.
Region: Europe, northern Asia, North America.
Taxonomy: formerly classified in the family
Scrophulariaceae.
Phylogeny has shown that Rhinanthus is the closely related to Lathraea, Rhynchocorys. These three genera share phylogenetic affinities with members of the core Rhinantheae: Bartsia, Euphrasia, Tozzia, Hedbergia, Bellardia, and Odontites. Melampyrum appears as a more distant relative.