Uniquely identifiable characteristics: it has five small green flowers atop a short leafless stalk. There are four five-petalled flowers at right-angles facing the four cardinal ways like a Town Hall clock, and a fifth four-petalled flower atop facing skywards. No other flower has this feature. [The number of petals sometimes varies, and so too can the number of flowers atop a stem].

The leaves are asymmetrical and reminiscent of those of Yellow Corydalis.

Growing with green flowers in dampish dark conditions typical of woodland in amongst Dog's Mercury you are unlikely to come across this plant by chance, and must actively seek it out. It also grows on mountains and hedgebanks. It flowers early in the calendar, between March and May.

Moschatel was once thought to be the only known member of the Adoxa Family, but it is now known that the Verbena shrubs also belong to Adoxa.

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