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3rd June 2016, road, Roehead, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Grows up to 50cm tall in bare or grassy places near rural buildings. [The un-evenly toothed leaves at the bottom to left and right are those of a Dandelion. The tall plant on the left is Garlic Mustard - behind the Good-King-Henry is an umbellifer] |
3rd June 2016, road, Roehead, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Lower leaves are isosceles-triangular in shape, wrinkly and wavy-edged and with a prominent basal lobe. Upper leaves rhomboid or more oval, but all with stalks. It is a rhizomatous perennial plant. |
3rd June 2016, road, Roehead, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
There are 7 flower-spikes (actually spikes of spikes, or panicles) visible in this photo. |
3rd June 2016, road, Roehead, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Flower spikelets densely covered in small (about 5mm across) flowers. This panicle looking fuzzier than the others because the casings have fallen off the anthers and so they appear thinner. |
3rd June 2016, road, Roehead, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Whereas on this flowering panicle the anthers are still mostly encased in their cream-coloured casings. |
3rd June 2016, road, Roehead, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Naked anthers - here with dark-brown coloured pollen. Note numerous deep grooves on stems. |
3rd June 2016, road, Roehead, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The flowers with (mostly) 2-pronged stigmas and stamens with anthers still encased in cream-coloured (reddish in some cases) cases. |
3rd June 2016, road, Roehead, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Single flowers showing 5 stamens with 5 'double-barrelled' anthers atop. The whitish two-pronged stigma is visible on the lower flower. Stems are covered in small white (transparent) 'blobs' which look like grains of sugar (but are not). Flowers are either bisexual or female. Two green fruits at top with the forked stigmas. |
3rd June 2016, road, Roehead, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The stigmas on most styles are forked into two, like horns of Highland Cattle, but some are like tridents with three spurs. |
3rd June 2016, road, Roehead, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
One flower with 5 green sepals holding 5 filaments each with a pair of anther cases which are splitting open ready to drop off and reveal the fresh cream-coloured pollen grains. |
3rd June 2016, road, Roehead, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
This flowering panicle has gone to fruit (at the moment, green) - each with a forked stigma still atop. The pale-green underside of the leaves are prominently veined. The upper surface of the leaves have a bright-green sheen. |
3rd June 2016, road, Roehead, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Clusters of green fruits wielding forked stigmas in the shape of a horseshoe. |
3rd June 2016, road, Roehead, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Main stem with ribs/grooves and covered in tiny transparent-white globules. |
3rd June 2016, road, Roehead, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The leaves. |
3rd June 2016, road, Roehead, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Some of these leaves are displaying their two side-lobes. |
3rd June 2016, road, Roehead, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Whilst the lower leaves look reminiscent of those of Lords-and-Ladies. |
Some similarities to : Uniquely identifiable characteristics: An Archaeophyte and the only perennial Goosefoot. The mealy leaves, which are longer-than-wide and vaguely isosceles-triangular, are scarcely lobed. The dense panicle of small flowers are usually without leaves within the flower-spike itself. Distinguishing Feature : The leaves It is a was once used to be cultivated as a vegetable, for the leaves are mealy. It is found near farm buildings, beside roads and pastures in nitrogen-rich areas typical of farms. Scattered locally over most of Britain but rare in North and West Scotland and Ireland.
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