Photo © Jackie Miles |
Rare weed of cultivated ground. Flower diameter c 4-10 mm Skye ID: Not likely to be mistaken for anything else when showing red flowers. The flowers can also be blue, mauve or pink, but are still very distinctive. Stems square-sided, leaves shaped like those of Chickweed, opposite, unstalked, 3-veined, with black gland-dots beneath. Petals, little longer than sepals, fringed with minute gland-hairs (many in ssp arvensis, few in ssp foemina) Other features: Flowers solitary in leaf axils. Usually annual, can be perennial. |
