Yellow-wort
Yellow-wort - Blackstonia perfoliata
Alternative names
Yellow Wort
Description
Short to medium greyish, erect plant. Leaves oval to triangular, the upper ones fused around the stem. Flowers yellow, 8 to 15 mm with 6 to 8 petal lobes in lax, branched clusters.
Designation
Indicator Species - Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Local Nature Recovery Strategy.
Identification difficulty
Habitat
Grassland, dunes and rocky places on calcareous soils.
When to see it
June to October.
Life History
Annual
UK Status
Infrequent and local but widely distributed in England up to southern Scotland, often coastal in Wales.
VC55 Status
Quite rare in Leicestershire + Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 3 of the 617 tetrads
David Nicholls
Ketton Quarry
13 June 2014
Barbara Cooper
Ketton Quarry
22 July 2012
David Nicholls
Ketton Quarry
13 June 2014
Graham Calow
Ketton Quarry
30 June 2011
steven lewis
Welby
27 June 2015
Barbara Cooper
Ketton Quarry
22 July 2012
AJ Cann
Ketton Quarry
21 June 2015
Paul Ruddoch
Acres Rise
13 September 2015
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