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6th Aug 2004, Edale, Derbyshire. | Photo: © RWD |
6th Aug 2004, Edale, Derbyshire. | Photo: © RWD |
6th Aug 2004, Edale, Derbyshire. | Photo: © RWD |
25th June 2004, Grindleford, Derbyshire | Photo: © RWD |
Note how the green sepal-like bracts are of alternate size; they are in two rows behind the flower. |
25th June 2004, Grindleford, Derbyshire | Photo: © RWD |
Note the two rows of sepal-like bracts, plus a third row of the thinner sepals behind those. |
13th Aug 2007, Chesterfield Canal, Chesterfield. | Photo: © RWD |
20th July 2007, Cumbria Coastal Path, Cartmel. | Photo: © RWD |
The flowers are more symmetrical in the middle but much more zygomorphic on the periphery. |
20th July 2007, Cumbria Coastal Path, Cartmel. | Photo: © RWD |
An outer flower with three outer very long petal-lobess and one inner which is much shorter (but still longer than those flowers in the centre). |
20th July 2007, Cumbria Coastal Path, Cartmel. | Photo: © RWD |
There are only four petal-lobes in a floret in Field Scabious (rather than the 5 of the similar Small Scabious. Each flower has 4 stamens (most are lacking their anthers in this specimen). The central flowers are actinomorphic. |
30th Aug 2008, Magpie Mine, Derbyshire. | Photo: © RWD |
23rd Sept 2008, Blackleach Reservoir, Walkden, Greater M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
26th Sept 2011, Chelmorton, Derbys. | Photo: © RWD |
The fruits close-up; the fringed rings are the remains of the individual floret sepals, numbering 10 (there are only 4 to 5 in Devil's-bit Scabious). The fruits are like miniature urns or gourds. |
23rd Sept 2009, Blackleach Country Pk, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
The 'eyelashes' at the top of the 'gourds'. |
31st Aug 2015, Smardale Gill, Newbiggin, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The 'eyelashes' at the top and long white hairs below. |
19th July 2005, Magpie Mine, Derbyshire. | Photo: © RWD |
A shamble of stem leaves. |
19th July 2005, Magpie Mine, Derbyshire. | Photo: © RWD |
In pairs on the stem and not dissimilar to the divided leaves on the stems of Common Valerian (which cannot possibly be mistaken for Field Scabious). |
19th July 2005, Magpie Mine, Derbyshire. | Photo: © RWD |
At first glace they look pinnate, but they are actually finely lobed or divided. |
19th July 2005, Magpie Mine, Derbyshire. | Photo: © RWD |
Stem leaves amplexicaul from which an opposite pair of flower stalks may also emerge, the leaves on which are simple. Many short stem hairs. |
Easily confused with : Small Scabious
Delineating Features between Small and Field Scabious : The green sepal-like bracts immediately behind the flower head are in two rows (or so one book says, but if you look-see yourself, you will see that there are not two rows, but at least 4!! - so whoever is right, if anyone is wrong, is yet to be seen), the two sets of rows being of un-equal size. From above the flower, the bracts appear alternate in size. Also, whereas in Small Scabious (Scabiosa columbaria), the number of petal-lobes in an individual floret is five, the number of petal-lobes in Field Scabious is only four Field Scabious is also the taller of the two. The stem is also hairier than Small Scabious. Distinguishing Feature: Both Field Scabious and Small Scabious have a single flower head on the end of a long stalk which is lilac/steel blue in colour, with the individual florets clustered together in a compact head, but where the outer petal-lobes are much larger than the in-ward facing petal-lobes. The stem leaves are also completely different, being very fine pinnate-like but with few fine branches on Small Scabious (broader with shorter lobes on Field Scabious).
Note that Small Scabious (Scabiosa columbaria), The flowers of both Field Scabious and Devil's-bit Scabious are Gynodioecious, meaning the flowers are a mixture of Female and Bisexual flowers.
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