Eyebright has been divided into a large number of microspecies and their hybrids, which are not treated separately on this site. The flowers are usually white with a yellow throat borne in a spike. Leaves are opposite and toothed.

Provide a photograph showing the flowering plant in habitat (RPR)

Grassy areas, short turf and sometimes on stony areas around quarries.

Late June to September.

Semi parasitic annual herbs.

Local but widespread over most of Britain.

Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland, mainly on quarry spoil and calcareous grassland; populations vary greatly in size from year to year.

  Common Eyebright (Euphrasia nemorosa) is on the current VC55 Rare Plant Register (Hall and Woodward 2022) because of its threat-level.