Common name:
Red bartsia
Family:
Scientific name:
Odontites vernus
Main flower color:
Range:
All across the UK, though not in higher elevation areas
Height:
Up to 40 cm
Habitat:
Fields, waste ground, grassland, verges
Flowers:
The calyx is purplish, bell-shaped, four-lobed, with a sparse downy hair covering, while the corolla is pink and tubular, with two lips, the upper essentially undivided, and projecting forwards, the lower (somewhat shorter) angled down, and divided into three small, equal-size lobes. Flowers are produced as an elongated cluster, subtended by purplish, leaf-like bracts
Leaves:
Opposite, unstalked, hairy, up to 3 cm long, lined by a few coarse teeth and crossed by prominent, parallel veins
Season:
June to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
