Common name:
Heath milkwort
Family:
Scientific name:
Polygala serpyllifolia
Main flower color:
Range:
All across the UK
Height:
Up to 20 cm
Habitat:
Heaths, and grasslands on acidic soils
Flowers:
Around 6 mm long. The two large and three small outer sepals are blue to purple, usually deeply coloured, while the three fused inner petals are lighter-coloured, becoming whitish, and fringed, at the tip. Flowers are produced in small clusters, of between five and ten
Leaves:
Opposite (mostly), oblanceolate, along hairless stems, square in cross-section, which may branch a few times around the middle
Season:
May to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
