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Bartsia is a genus of flowering plants in the broomrape family, Orobanchaceae.
Bartsia grows in damp places, such as marshes and wet meadows, in several parts of the west of England and Wales and in southwest Scotland.
In Manitoba, Canada, the plant known as red bartsia ( Odontites vernus, previously classified as Bartsia odontites) is considered a weed.
Usage examples of "bartsia".
She picked an armful of flowers, toothy dis and marjoram, bartsia and planellasprinkled them on the current and as they drifted away offered a prayer that the young men might meet with Sphelthon and share his peace.
A less common species, Bartsia viscosa, is found in marshes and damp places- the flowers are yellow, and might be mistaken for Yellow Rattle, from which it may be easily distinguished by its solitary, unspiked, yellowflowers, and by being covered with clammy down.
Among its British representatives it embraces members so diverse as the Foxglove and Speedwell, the Mullein and Figworts, the Toadflax and the semi-parasites, Eyebright, Bartsia, Cowwheat, and the Red and Yellow Rattles.