Common name:
Chalk milkwort
Family:
Scientific name:
Polygala calcarea
Main flower color:
Range:
Southeast England
Height:
Up to 20 cm
Habitat:
Short grassland on chalky soils
Flowers:
Around 5 mm long, usually bright blue, less often light pink or almost white, formed of three small sepals and two large sepals, enclosing a tube of three fused petals, fringed (and white) around the margin. Flowers form as a dense terminal cluster, of between six and 20
Leaves:
Ovate, with blunt-tips; in a basal rosette and at alternate, quite widely-spaced intervals along the stem
Season:
May to June
Rarity:
★★★★★
