Common name:
Pepper saxifrage
Family:
Scientific name:
Silaum silaus
Main flower color:
Range:
Most common in south/central England; less common further west and north
Height:
Up to 100 cm
Habitat:
Damp meadows and open woodland, with heavy, often clayish soils
Flowers:
Yellowish-white, with widely spreading stamens, in compound umbels (up to 6 cm in diameter) of five to ten long, slender rays, with linear bracteoles beneath the flowers. Bracts are generally absent. The branched stems are solid, ridged and hairless
Leaves:
Pinnately divided two or three times into narrow, hairless leaflets, pointed and often reddish at the tip
Season:
July to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
