Footpath along Adur River, heading towards Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex. Nothing else quite like it. Like all Broomrapes, it's a parasite that gets its nutrients in particular from grass roots. It is a good way of controlling the more aggressive species of grass.

Yellow Rattle / Lesser Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor) (22/05/2022) Footpath along Adur River, heading towards Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex. Nothing else quite like it. Like all Broomrapes, it's a parasite that gets its nutrients in particular from grass roots. It is a good way of controlling the more aggressive species of grass.

Yellow Rattle / Lesser Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor) (22/05/2022) Footpath along Adur River, heading towards Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex.

Footpath along Adur River, heading towards Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex. The very distinctive leaves.

Yellow Rattle / Lesser Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor) (22/05/2022) Footpath along Adur River, heading towards Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex. The very distinctive leaves.

Yellow Rattle / Lesser Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor) (22/05/2022) Footpath along Adur River, heading towards Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex.

Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (small field). These are the developing seed pods (or at least they are within the two sepals). You can just make out the old style sticking out.

Yellow Rattle / Lesser Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor) (09/06/2022) Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (small field). These are the developing seed pods (or at least they are within the two sepals). You can just make out the old style sticking out.

Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (small field). Flowers at the top, sepals containing developing seed pods beneath.

Yellow Rattle / Lesser Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor) (09/06/2022) Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (small field). Flowers at the top, sepals containing developing seed pods beneath.

Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (in the small field leading to the field with the owl box in it). Many of these seed pods will now have shed their seeds.

Yellow Rattle / Lesser Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor) (17/07/2022) Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (in the small field leading to the field with the owl box in it). Many of these seed pods will now have shed their seeds.

Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (in the small field leading to the field with the owl box in it). "Rattle" because the seeds rattle in their seed pods before they are spent!

Yellow Rattle / Lesser Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor) (17/07/2022) Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (in the small field leading to the field with the owl box in it). "Rattle" because the seeds rattle in their seed pods before they are spent!

Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (in the small field leading to the field with the owl box in it).

Yellow Rattle / Lesser Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor) (17/07/2022) Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (in the small field leading to the field with the owl box in it).