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Grass of Parnassus |
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Parnassia palustris |
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Carl Farmer |
Fairly frequent in wet grassland Flower diameter c 2-3.5 cm Skye ID: Flower structure unlike any other. If flower is like these pics, you have it. Other features: 5 sterile stamens have bristles tipped with yellow glands forming five rings of dots as in picture on left. 5 fertile stamens have cream-coloured anthers, also visible in picture. Basal leaves look like those of violets and there is just one stem leaf, similar but stalkless. |
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Carl Farmer |