Common name:
Field scabious
Family:
Scientific name:
Knautia arvensis
Main flower color:
Range:
Wales, England and the southern half of Scotland
Height:
Up to 80 cm
Habitat:
Dry grassland, roadsides
Flowers:
Hemispherical clusters of pinkish-purple, four-lobed flowers, subtended by a ring of broad, ovate, leaf-like bracts, white-hairy. Flowers at the edge of the cluster are significantly larger than those towards the centre. Below each flower is a calyx formed of eight dark, bristle-like teeth
Leaves:
Basal leaves are usually unlobed, though do have a few coarse edge teeth, while stem leaves are always deeply pinnately lobed. All leaves, like the stem, are covered by rough, spreading hairs
Season:
June to October
Rarity:
★★★★★
