Short to medium hairy plant. Stems erect, branched. Leaves oval to heart shaped, stalked. Flowers pale greenish yellow, stamens protruding with maroon anthers in leafless spikes.

Indicator Species - Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Local Nature Recovery Strategy.

Woodland and heathland on acid soils

Late June to September.

Perennial

Widespread and quite common throughout Britain.

Fairly frequent, but rather local in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 64 of the 617 tetrads. 

In the current Checklist (Jeeves 2011) it is listed as locally frequent; largely confined to Charnwood Forest area