Common name:
Redshank
Family:
Scientific name:
Persicaria maculosa
Synonym:
polygonum persicaria
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the British Isles
Height:
Up to 70 cm
Habitat:
Field margins, verges, waste and disturbed ground
Flowers:
Pale pink; three outer sepals and three inner sepals, usually overlapping, and two stigmas. Flowers are densely clustered, in short, vertical spikes; the largest at the top of the stem, above the uppermost leaf, with smaller clusters from the upper nodes
Leaves:
Narrowly ovate to lanceolate, up to 10 cm long, bright green, usually with a darker patch at the centre. On hairless stems that are often tinged red
Season:
June to October
Rarity:
★★★★★
