Melampyrum lineare (Cow-Wheat) - photos and description
Clump of many plants
General: Slender, erect annual with a few branches mid-stem.
Flowers: Flowers are tubular, white, with a yellow lip, borne in upper leaf axils. Flowers measured at 12 mm long and 3 mm wide.
Leaves: Leaves linear, opposite, we measured a leaf at 3.5 cm long and 4 mm wide. Bottom of leaves puberulent.
Height: Height listed in Budd's Flora to 50 cm, I measured plants to 23 cm tall.
Habitat: Dry woodlands in the boreal forest.
Abundance: Common.
Origin: Native.
When and where photographed: Took the above photos late June 26th, trail through jack pine and white spruce woods, La Ronge Provincial Park, about 650 km north of our home in Regina, SK.