Common name:
Love-in-a-mist
Family:
Scientific name:
Nigella damascena
Main flower color:
Range:
Wales and south/central England; an introduced species, from southern Europe, north Africa and Asia
Height:
Up to 40 cm
Habitat:
Verges, gardens, waste ground
Flowers:
Up to 5 cm across, with from five to 25 broad, clawed sepals, coloured pale blue, pale purple, pink or white, around a group of stamens and carpels. Petals are inconspicuous, attached to the base of the stamens. Flowers are solitary and terminal, subtended by leaf-like bracts
Fruit:
Inflated capsules, of four or five fused segments, each topped by a residual style
Leaves:
Hairless, pinnately divided into very narrow, linear, well-separated lobes
Season:
June to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
