Common name:
Goat's-rue
Family:
Scientific name:
Galega officinalis
Main flower color:
Range:
South and central England; a naturalised species, from eastern Europe
Height:
Up to 1 m
Habitat:
Waste ground, roadsides
Flowers:
In elongated clusters of up to 10 cm long. Flowers are pendent to spreading, greenish-white in bud, pinkish-purple when mature, or sometimes all-white. Calyces have pointed, bristle-like lobes
Fruit:
Rounded cylinders, up to 3 cm long
Leaves:
Hairless, pinnate, with a terminal leaflet and 4 to 8 opposite pairs of lateral leaflets, up to 1 cm wide
Season:
May to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
