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23rd May 2008, Shell Island campsite, North Wales coast. | Photo: © RWD |
A low plant usually with white petals, sometimes reaching the dizzy heights of up to 50cm (or even to 1m on occasion). This one cannot get above the grass. |
1st May 2010, Sandscale Haws, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Burnet Rose especially likes to grow near the seaside, but will grow inland too. These specimens are but 200 yards from the sea. The leaves have between 3 to 5 opposite pairs of leaflets plus one terminal leaflet, and are often flushed with a red dye making them appear muddy green to various degrees. |
21st May 2020, Bridgewater Canal, Worsley, Gtr. M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
The flowers are usually white, with 5 petals and between 2 and 4 cm across. |
21st May 2020, Bridgewater Canal, Worsley, Gtr. M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
21st May 2020, Bridgewater Canal, Worsley, Gtr. M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Many flowers here have lost their petals, leaving them with a circle of many anthers. [Grasses and other plants lower left]. |
21st May 2020, Bridgewater Canal, Worsley, Gtr. M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
21st May 2020, Bridgewater Canal, Worsley, Gtr. M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
The flowers have numerous lemon-yellow filaments in a multitude of lengths radiating outwards from a central ring containing a compact group of stunted yellower stigmas. |
1st May 2010, Sandscale Haws, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The multitude of filaments stretch a large range of differing of lengths, each with a similar-sized orange-yellow anther. |
23rd May 2008, Shell Island campsite, North Wales coast. | Photo: © RWD |
The flowers have 5 somewhat overlapping white petals, each with a V-shaped nick in the middle, which can make it look like there are more than 5 petals.
Here there are two as-yet un-opened flowers, with the white petals folded up within the embraces of 5 long sepal teeth coming from the sepal cup. The edges of the leaves are often flushed red on the edge by the same red dye which makes the leaves a dirty green. |
30th June 2018, Red Rock, West Kirby, Wirral. | Photo: © RWD |
Berries are globed to oblate spheroids (any that are prolate spheroids are probably any of many of a hybrids). The berries turn from a dull red to a dull black when ripe. |
1st Sept 2018, Moore Nature Reserve, Warrington, Cheshire. | Photo: © RWD |
As they ripen and blacken they get heavier and may droop downwards. |
1st Sept 2018, Moore Nature Reserve, Warrington, Cheshire. | Photo: © RWD |
Looking a bit like black conkers. They are on black stalks which seem to start at a leaf junction. Some leaflets here are also red-edged, especially it seems near their tips on this specimen, concolorous in places with the 5 remaining styles which make them look like poisonous jellyfish or landing alien spaceships. |
27th May 2020, Bridgewater Canal, Worsley, Gtr. M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Here the reddish-edged leaf teeth are seen to really be double-toothed and with a few very short black-tipped hairs which have spherical glands at the tips. |
5th Aug 2017, Hall Road, Sefton Coast, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The thorns along the stems are of two different kinds, the thinner prickles and the sharp, stiff cat-claw shaped bristles (aka acicles). |
5th Aug 2017, Hall Road, Sefton Coast, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The red prickles and thorns on the stem. The leaflets (bottom of photo), are a small 0.5 to 1.5cm long (a 3 to 1 range in size) and oval, hairless, net-veined and with a reddened edge to the small simple teeth (but sometimes the teeth are biserrated). |
30th June 2018, Red Rock, West Kirby, Wirral. | Photo: © RWD |
Occasionally a pink variety can be found, but these are introduced plants. |
27th May 2020, Bridgewater Canal, Worsley, Gtr. M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
# After the petals have fallen # The flowers without petals (apart from one top left) revealing the long (now reddish) tapering sepals behind |
27th May 2020, Bridgewater Canal, Worsley, Gtr. M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Five red sepals and a plethora of long and short filaments with fawn-coloured anthers. An annular pink area around the central tight cluster of very short pale-brown styles. |
It is possible that some of the specimens above are of hybrids between Burnet Rose and a plethora of other Roses such as Japanese Rose (Rosa rugosa),
Not to be semantically confused with : Burnet-Saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga), Greater Burnet-Saxifrage (Pimpinella major), Salad Burnet (Poterium sanguisorba ssp. sanguisorba), Fodder Burnet (
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