Wood cow-wheat is easy to recognize: its yellow flowers and purple upper leaves bring to mind the colours.
Field Cow-wheat (Melampyrum arvense) must surely count as one of our most beautiful of these wildflowers. There are other beautiful cow-wheat species, however, and Wood Cow-wheat with its deep purple upper leaves and bright yellow flowers surely deserves to be high on the list.
Перестріч гайовий, або дібровний (Melampyrum nemorosum) — однорічна рослина напівпаразитна рослина з родини Вовчкових. Має медоносні та лікувальні властивості, обмежено застосовується у народній медицині.
For this type of plant Yu Kobiv 46 gives the popular name. Most of them sound like brothers and sisters, brothers, sisters and the like. Not consonant, but similar to the meaning of the name, it's grandfathers, day and night, yvan-ta-mariya, who-ta-ganna. The basis of these names is the contrast between words that denote predominantly family ties or male and female names, this approach is due to the fact that in the inflorescence, the violet blades contrast with the yellow-hot petals - this is the "unity of opposites" and noticed by people in Antiquity