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Carl Farmer |
Rare garden weed Flowers c 10-12 mm long Skye ID: Flowers white, sometimes tinged pink, with dark tips. Flowers over 10 mm long, sepals about twice as long as broad. (sepals are the white things with green midrib, covering about the middle third of the flower, seen well in the lowest flower in pic on left) Other features: Lowest petal parallel-sided when viewed from above or below, like F muralis but unlike F officinalis (this is well seen in the left-most flower of the left-hand picture). A climbing or scrambling plant. About 15-20 flowers in each spike. Mature fruits on downcurved stalks. |
