Common name:
Greater celandine
Family:
Scientific name:
Chelidonium majus
Main flower color:
Range:
Most of the UK; absent only from northwest Scotland and western Ireland
Height:
Up to 90 cm
Habitat:
Woodland, hedgebanks, old walls
Flowers:
Up to 25 mm in diameter; four ovate, non-overlapping yellow petals, many yellow stamens and a green calyx sparsely covered with long silky hairs
Fruit:
Narrow capsules up to 5 cm long, splitting from the base
Leaves:
Hairless, pinnately divided into broad, rounded, shallowly lobed leaflets
Season:
April to October
Rarity:
★★★★★
