Appearance
"Melampyrum pratense" is a food plant of the caterpillars of the heath fritillary, a butterfly."Melampyrum pratense" herb has been used in traditional Austrian medicine internally as tea or externally as pillow filling for treatment of rheumatism and blood vessels calcification.
"Melampyrum pratense" can be parasitized by the oomycete species "Peronospora tranzschelinana".
Naming
The Latin specific epithet "pratense" means "of meadows".References:
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