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Rock-Rose Family [Cistaceae] |
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24th April 2009, | Photo: © Phillip Bagshaw |
An low under-shrub of limestone turf, but up to 50cm tall. |
24th April 2009, | Photo: © Phillip Bagshaw |
Has brilliant-white petals with central yellow smudge and numerous yellow anthers and reminiscent of fried eggs. |
24th April 2009, | Photo: © Phillip Bagshaw |
Flowers up to 30mm across. The pollen is golden yellow and some has landed on the lower left hand petal. |
24th April 2009, | Photo: © Phillip Bagshaw |
Five very wrinkly rather ragged petals. Petals have a central deep-yellow patch. |
24th April 2009, | Photo: © Phillip Bagshaw |
With a hemispherical splay of deep-yellow anthers at the end of greenish-yellow filaments. |
24th April 2009, | Photo: © Phillip Bagshaw |
Several flowers branch off a main flowering stem. Three multiply-ridged elliptic sepals are wide, cupped around the back of the petals, the ridges often reddish. Each flower has three outer sepals plus two normally hidden plain sepals, making for the reported 5 sepals all told. |
24th April 2009, | Photo: © Phillip Bagshaw |
Un-opened flower buds with their ridged sepals. Your Author knows not what the tiny oval 'leaf-like' bracts resting at the back of some of the sepals are, but presumes they are tiny leaves. |
24th April 2009, | Photo: © Phillip Bagshaw |
Leaves narrower than those of Common Rock-Rose and have a deeply grooved central mid-rib. The two 'halves' of the leaves divided by the groove are strongly convexly curved. The lower leaves have their stalks the same lengths as the two stipules each side (one pointing directly towards the observer). Leaves and stalks covered in short matted greyish hairs giving a matt appearance to the top leaf surface. |
Hybridizes with : Common Rock-Rose (Helianthemum nummularium) to produce
Flowers have some similarities to : white Many similarities to : Common Rock-Rose (Helianthemum nummularium) but these have deep-yellow petals (rather than white petals), slightly broader leaves, the leaves being hairless above and downy underneath) (rather than downy white on the top surface). Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature :
No relation to : This plant is very rare, appearing in less that 5 hectads now appearing only near the coast of North Somerset and South Devon. It grows in dry limestone grassland and is native.
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Helianthemum | apenninum | ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ | Cistaceae |
Helianthemum (Rock-Roses) |
Rock-Rose Family [Cistaceae] |