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2nd June 2007, on sand, Princeslade, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
A branched plant with a flower at the top of each branch. Leaves in well-separated whorls up the stems. |
17th May 2007, Kern Farm, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
It is a well-branched and erect annual plant growing to 15cm high. |
2nd June 2007, on sand, Princeslade, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
Showing a multiply-branched stem. All leaves narrow-triangular. Some are in opposite pairs just below each branch, whilst others are in small well-isolated whorls where there are no branches. |
17th May 2007, Kern Farm, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
The leaves are in small whorls of about 4 up the stem. A single flower atops each stem. |
7th June 2011, a verge, Sandown, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
The flowers have 4 or 5 green sepals with 4 or 5 creamy petals. The anthers are yellow, if they are visible. |
6th June 2011, Arreton, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
These flowers are now turned mostly to fruits |
30th April 2011, Sandown, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
The fruit here has gone a mottled grey colour. Leaves narrow-triangular with tiny acuminate point at tip. Here the (usually 4, sometimes 5) anthers can still be seen surrounding the fruit. The fruit is a capsule 1.4 to 2mm long (occasionally up to 2.5mm). |
7th June 2011, a verge, Sandown, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone |
A developing fruit within the sepals. The leaves with a point just 0.1 to 0.4mm long (best seen in the leaf near left side). |
20th July 2016, in grass, Lock 5, Rufford Canal, Burscough, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
A well-bifurcated-branched specimen with 2 cupped bracts just below the branches. Near the top the plant can be either glandular hairy or without hairs. |
20th July 2016, in grass, Lock 5, Rufford Canal, Burscough, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
4 sepals cup the fruits here. Deceased insect clings on to the right-hand branch. |
20th July 2016, in grass, Lock 5, Rufford Canal, Burscough, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The 2 bracts around an unbranched part of the stem. |
20th July 2016, in grass, Lock 5, Rufford Canal, Burscough, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Two unripe fruits. |
20th July 2016, in grass, Lock 5, Rufford Canal, Burscough, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
With one of the 4 sepals and 4 petals having dropped off making just 3 of each on this specimen. Tiny dead insect stuck to stem. Short appressed hairs can be discerned on this stem. |
Not to be semantically confused with : Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), It is a native plant which grows on dry bare ground on heaths or on paths or sea-cliffs. It occurs scattered over much of the British Isles. It is somewhat variable in its general appearance. Take with pinches of NaCl.
The very similar plant,
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