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Carl Farmer |
Common in wet ground, including burns, ditches, damp waste ground, and flushes in hills. Flower diameter c 5-8 mm (including sepals) Skye ID: Petals shorter than sepals and split to base, each half lining up with half the adjacent petal along a sepal. Other features: Square stems, hairless except at base of leaves. Often a tiny plant in bare ground such as gravel, but in water or very wet ground can be quite luxuriant. Calyx-base is funnel-shaped, not rounded as in other Stitchworts. Picture on left has lowest petal already fallen. |
