Photo © Carl Farmer |
Occasional garden or arable weed. Height c 15-30 cm. Flowers c 8-12 mm across. Skye ID: Flowers solitary in leaf-axils, on stalks that are longer than their leaf but not twice as long. Flowers blue, the lowest petal often white. The similar V agrestis and V polita have flower-stalks shorter than their leaves and flowers less than 8 mm across. V filiformis has flower-stalks much longer than twice leaf length. Other features: A hairy annual with branches sprawling along the ground. Fruit capsule much broader than long, consisting of two diverging lobes. Leaves pale green as below left; the other 2 pics were taken in dull conditions and have the leaves too dark but show the flowers well. |
