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15th June 2010, Hampsfell, Grange over Sands, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The limestone counterpart of acid-loving Heath Bedstraw. |
15th June 2010, Hampsfell, Grange over Sands, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
It is more mat-forming than Heath Bedstraw and has creamier white petals. |
15th June 2010, Hampsfell, Grange over Sands, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The flowers are tiny, 2 to 3mm across, and clustered together. |
15th June 2010, Hampsfell, Grange over Sands, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The flowers are in small clusters and mostly at the ends of branched stalks with whorls of narrow linear leaves. The stems become redder nearer the ground. |
15th June 2010, Hampsfell, Grange over Sands, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
A cluster of small 4-petalled white flowers on branched square stalks. Some flowers not yet open. The number of leaves in a whorl varies from 3 to perhaps 8. |
15th June 2010, Hampsfell, Grange over Sands, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Four pointed creamy-white petals with four anthers with creamy yellow pollen. |
15th June 2010, Hampsfell, Grange over Sands, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Whorls of up to 8 narrow linear leaves, pointed at the ends with minute short terminating bristle. |
15th June 2010, Hampsfell, Grange over Sands, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Sometimes reddish stems. The leaves have minute backwardly directed short marginal prickles. (evident on left leaf). |
Easily confused with : Some similarities to : Heath Bedstraw, but Heath Bedstraw loves heaths and other acidic soils rather than the alkaline of Limestone Bedstraw. Heath Bedstraw has whiter flowers.
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