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13th Aug 2007, Kiveton Bridge, South Yorkshire. | Photo: © RWD |
Tall and spindley, about 30 inches high. |
30th July 2007, Near Marsden, West Yorkshire. | Photo: © RWD |
Dark brown/red flower heads atop branched stems. |
7th Aug 2001, Dalegarth, Eskdale Valley, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The stem leaves are few. |
9th Sept 2006, Newlands Valley, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
6th July 2007, Little Langdale Valley, Cumbria | Photo: © RWD |
Flowers not ready to open as yet. Each one has a pointed brown bract below it. |
6th July 2007, Little Langdale Valley, Cumbria | Photo: © RWD |
The four petals open revealing four dark-purple stamens within. Stems fluted, sometimes square (image below). |
5th Aug 2011, Little Langdale, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
All the flowers open. |
6th June 2016, Waitby Greenriggs, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The four stamens are appressed into the central fold of the four tepals (which are dark purple on the outside, but sometimes white on the inside. The florets further down the inflorescence have not yet opened; only the four tightly closed tepals can be seen. The tepals have a central rib which becomes more prominent near the end where they bend over to meet in the centre. |
6th June 2016, Waitby Greenriggs, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The four styles appressed against the inside central ribs of the tepals, each with a deep-purple anther and deep yellow pollen. Poking slightly out right at the tip of each central tepal rib is a 'brush' of very short white hairs; these are not sexual organs. The style is also white and terminates in a pink papillate style. The short white brush-like hairs protruding from the ribs at the end of each tepal are plainly seen here just being the anthers, as if to tickle them. Your Author does not know their function, but they are not female sexual organs, that is lower down in the centre. The ribs of the tepals can be clearly seen on the unopened floret (bottom left). |
6th June 2016, Waitby Greenriggs, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
All florets are bisexual with pink style deeper inside the flower in the centre. |
3rd July 2014, | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
Leaves typical of those plants belonging to the Roseaceae family. |
6th July 2007, Little Langdale Valley, Cumbria | Photo: © RWD |
The leaves are pinnate, with pronounced forwardly-directed triangular teeth. |
3rd July 2014, | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
Leaf teeth are terminated by dark-red tips. |
PROLIFERATION in GREAT BURNET |
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3rd July 2014, | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
Another stem has decided to proliferate from near the summit of this plant. This does not seem to be one of the ordinary branches of which there are usually many, since it is not of similar thickness. |
Distinguishing Feature : The flowers are all clustered together in a hard deep-red or nearly brown prolate spherical head. The leaves are typical rose-type, but but much narrower and slightly longer than typical members of the rose family. Like the rose family, the leaves are conspicuously coarsely toothed. Unlike most members of the rose family, Great Burnet has only four petals, not five. The flowers are all clustered together in a hard deep-red or nearly brown prolate spherical head.
An asymmetrical dimeric
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⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ |
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