FAIRY FOXGLOVE
Erinus Alpinus
Plantain Family [Plantaginaceae] 
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Plantain Family [Plantaginaceae]
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| 28th April 2011, Chatburn, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
| A short plant less than 8 inches high that gardeners like to embed in walls. |
| 10th June 2009, Smardale, Yorkshire. | Photo: © RWD |
| Mauve to lilac flowers, with five petals, not all the same width. With two upper petals narrower than the three lower ones it has bi-lateral symmetry. |
| 31st May 2005, Greenberfield, Lancashire. | Photo: © RWD |
| The petals with disctictive notches at the tips. |
| 31st May 2005, Greenberfield, Lancashire. | Photo: © RWD |
| Barely six inches tall, with hairy stems. |
| 31st May 2005, Greenberfield, Lancashire. | Photo: © RWD |
| Stem leaves small, toothed and broadest at the top. With a basal rosette of rounded-lobed leaves. |
| 10th June 2009, Smardale, Yorkshire. | Photo: © RWD |
| Flowers have a long petal tube, flaring into five notched petals. The centre of the flower is tinged deep yellow, contrasting with the mauve-coloured flowers. |
| 10th June 2009, Smardale, Yorkshire. | Photo: © RWD |
| Very hairy below the flowers. |
| 28th April 2011, Chatburn, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
| The leaves are fleshy, dark green, shoe-horn shaped, with short rounded lobes. |
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Easily confused with : Garden No relation to : Fairy Flax (a plant of very similar name) which is in the Flax family), nor to Fairy Fern.
Not to be confused with: Not much relation to : Foxglove (a plant of very similar name, and which also happens to be in the same Plantain family). The flowers of Foxglove are weakly two-lipped; those of Fairy Foxglove not so. More likely to be found in a rock garden or the wall of a garden than growing wild. The only flower in the Genus Erinus (or at least in the UK). ANY TEXT GOES HERE |
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Plantain Family [Plantaginaceae]
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