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28th Sept 2008, Duddon Mosses, Foxfield, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The narrow leaves are in-curled at the edges. |
28th Sept 2008, Duddon Mosses, Foxfield, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
28th Sept 2008, Duddon Mosses, Foxfield, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The flowers fall off whole, leaving a capsule containing the seed(s?). |
28th Sept 2008, Duddon Mosses, Foxfield, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The lower reaches of the stem turn woody. |
28th Sept 2008, Duddon Mosses, Foxfield, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
28th Sept 2008, Duddon Mosses, Foxfield, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The pink flowers hang down their heads; the five petals fused into a bell, with extremities furled backwards allowing only a small opening in the centre. |
28th Sept 2008, Duddon Mosses, Foxfield, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The leaves have a strong central indented vein that keeps it rigid and pointing sky-wards. Note the two differing mosses. |
Distinguishing Feature : A small plant with a drooping pink bell-shaped flower growing in a very wet bog, wetter than Bog Myrtle likes. Resemblance to: Cranberry, in that Cranberry is also very short and has the same pink coloured petals (if not the shape) and your feet will be getting wet when you examine it closely for it occupies much the same kind of terrain; wet boggy ground! Bog Rosemary flowers twice in the season, the first flowering late April to June; the second flowering September to October. Being a member of the Heather and Crowberry Family, it has bell-shaped flowers very similar in shape, if not colour, to Bell Heather. This plant is shorter than what your Author expected, being only slightly higher than the star mosses within which it was growing. Any slight disturbance to the flower invariably resulted in the petals falling off immediately, as many had already done without his assistance. The leaves are dark-green, narrow lanceolate, out-rolled at the edges and pointed at the tips, with prominent translucent veins showing through in the sunlight. The distribution of Bog Rosemary is confined to the middle latitudes of North-West UK and is the County Flower of Cardiganshire, Kircudbrightshire and Tyrone.
Bog Rosemary is a short woody undershrub of very wet places usually growing amidst
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Andromeda | polifolia | ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ | Ericaceae |
Andromeda (Bog-rosemary) |
Heather Family [Ericaceae] |