Corncockle
Corncockle - Agrostemma githago
Alternative names
Corn Cockle
Description
Medium to tall, greyish, hairy, erect plant. Leaves narrow, lanceolate, pointed. Flowers pinky purple, 30 to 50 mm, with long leaf like sepals much exceeding the 5 petals, borne on long, slender stalks.
Identification difficulty
Habitat
A weed of cornfields, occasionally in waste places.
When to see it
May to August.
Life History
Annual.
UK Status
Widespread but quite uncommon in Britain.
VC55 Status
Rare in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 2 of the 617 tetrads.
It was on the 2011 VC55 Rare Plant Register (Jeeves, 2011) but is not on the current RPR (Hall & Woodward, 2022) because records are on introduced plants
David Nicholls
Blaby Cemetary
24 June 2016
Denise Stretton
Jubilee Walk, Leire
02 August 2011
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk Leire
08 July 2012
David Nicholls
Blaby Cemetary
24 June 2016
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
27 August 2014
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk, Leire
02 August 2011
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