Settle Wildflowers - Day 37 - Yellow 9 - Yellow Rattle - Hay Meadow 3

Yellow Rattle is a jolly flower. By the end of next month the flowers will have grown into fruit and as the fruit dry, the seeds rattle.

Conservationists and people trying to manage a meadow so that it has more wildflowers like this plant. It is semi-parasitic on grasses and steals sugars and food from grass roots. This reduces the grass growth and thus allows other flowering plants to flourish

It is just coming into flower now.

Yellow Rattle in Giggleswick Churchyard, 
in front of Hogweed leaves- 
between east end of the church and the churchyard wall. 

Some seed was sprinkled in the grass by the path just to the east of Giggleswick church a few years ago in the YDMT wildflower project and it is getting established now.

A fly explores a Yellow Rattle flower