Common name:
Squinancywort
Family:
Scientific name:
Asperula cynanchica
Main flower color:
Range:
Mostly in southern England and south Wales; also a few locations further north
Height:
Up to 20 cm
Habitat:
Calcareous grassland, dunes
Flowers:
The corolla is small (around 6 mm long), funnel-shaped, opening to four white to pale pink lobes (sometimes crossed by three darker veins), curving back at the tips, and containing four stamens, with white filaments and red-brown anthers. Flowers are arranged in dense clusters at the tip of the short, lightly branched stems
Leaves:
Linear to narrowly elliptical, up to 2 cm long (often varying in length), in whorls of four along the hairless stems, which are square in cross-section
Season:
June to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
