Common name:
Brookweed
Family:
Scientific name:
Samolus valerandi
Main flower color:
Range:
Scattered, mainly coastal regions of most of the British Isles except north and east Scotland
Height:
Up to 12 cm
Habitat:
Fens, damp grassland, often on saline soils
Flowers:
A white, urn-shaped corolla opening to five slightly notched lobes, and a green calyx about a third as long, divided about half its height into triangular lobes. Flowers form as an open, terminal cluster; they are attached by relatively long, hairless pedicels, and each is subtended by a small bract
Leaves:
Hairless, light green, obovate, untoothed, on short stalks; in a basal rosette and at widely-separated intervals along the stem
Season:
November to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
