Carnation & Campion Family [Caryophyllaceae] |
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flower
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petals
5(20)petals
stem
3rd June 2010, ex-quarry pools, North Walney, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
From afar easily mistaken for the more ubiquitous Red Campion. |
23rd May 2008, Shell Island, North Wales Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
17th June 2004, Consall Forge, Caldon Canal. | Photo: © RWD |
The raggedness of the inflorescences are readily apparent. |
23rd May 2008, Shell Island, North Wales Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
The calyxes are pink with red stripes and 5 pointed teeth. |
17th June 2004, Consall Forge, Caldon Canal. | Photo: © RWD |
22nd June 2009, Storth, near Arnside, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
A newly opened specimen un-ravaged by wind or rain. There are but five petals, but so deeply cut to half-way as to look like twenty. |
22nd June 2009, Storth, near Arnside, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
22nd June 2009, Storth, near Arnside, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
There are 5 deeply cleft white inner parts to each flower protruding from the centre. |
23rd May 2008, Shell Island, North Wales Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaves are lanceolate to linear-lanceolate with an acute-angled tip. |
Distinguishing feature: the five pinkish petals are deeply cleft into usually untidy narrow strips. Unlike Red Campion, Ragged-Robin is bisexual with both stamens and styles within the same flower. It is glabrous (without hairs) to sparsely hairy and grows in damp grassy fields, marshes, fens and wet meadows. There is also an albino version, a phenotype where the gene for the pink colouring has been switched off. The Genus Lychnis is now subsumed within the Genus Silene, thus Ragged Robin is now seen as a Campion.
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Carnation & Campion Family [Caryophyllaceae] |