Teasel Family [Dipsacaceae] |
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17th Aug 2015, Cromford Canal, nr. Ambergate, Peak Dist. | Photo: © RWD |
Several specimens gathered together and grooving with a pict. |
17th Aug 2015, Cromford Canal, nr. Ambergate, Peak Dist. | Photo: © RWD |
The upper leaves are often pinnate with just one pair of leaflets each side of the leaf |
17th Aug 2007, Cromford Canal, Whatstandwell. | Photo: © RWD |
Much less frequent than Wild Teasel and at 1.5m only half the potential height of that. Leaves oblong, the upper narrower. |
30th Aug 2005, Cromford Canal, Whatstandwell. | Photo: © RWD |
The flower heads are glubular and extremely spiny, as are the thin stems. |
17th Aug 2015, Cromford Canal, nr. Ambergate, Peak Dist. | Photo: © RWD |
Although the spines on the stem (which have glands at their base) are soft the sharply pointed basal bracts between the flowers are quite sharp!. |
30th Aug 2005, Cromford Canal, Whatstandwell. | Photo: © RWD |
Flowers burst open from bulbous beginnings. |
17th Aug 2007, Cromford Canal, Whatstandwell. | Photo: © RWD |
Flowers have four white petals and four white stamens with brown/black anthers atop. The white petals are not radially symmetric; the lower petal bends down forming a lip. |
17th Aug 2007, Cromford Canal, Whatstandwell. | Photo: © RWD |
Bird's-eye view. Petals have fallen off from the topmost parts, leaving the fruiting-head to develop. |
17th Aug 2015, Cromford Canal, nr. Ambergate, Peak Dist. | Photo: © RWD |
The flower head is globular with the flowers all being approximately the same size, the epicalyx 4-sided. |
30th Aug 2005, Cromford Canal, Whatstandwell. | Photo: © RWD |
With all the petals having departed the spines on the fruit are all visible and sharp and hairy. Hairs directed outwards and upwards at c.45°. |
30th Aug 2005, Cromford Canal, Whatstandwell. | Photo: © RWD |
The sharp spines on the fruit (and flowerhead) are right-angled for stiffness. Hairs transparent. |
17th Aug 2015, Cromford Canal, nr. Ambergate, Peak Dist. | Photo: © RWD |
The lower leaves are simple. |
17th Aug 2015, Cromford Canal, nr. Ambergate, Peak Dist. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaves have bluntish but rather irregularly-spaced and shaped sawtooth teeth. |
17th Aug 2007, Cromford Canal, Whatstandwell. | Photo: © RWD |
The upper leaves often have a pair of leaflets at their base. |
Slight resemblance to : the flower heads of a
Similar to: Wild Teasel, Cut-Leaved Teasel and Inhabits damper woods, hedge-banks and sides of streams, and in the above case, a derelict canal.
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