Common name:
Wild madder
Family:
Scientific name:
Rubia peregrina
Main flower color:
Range:
Wales and south/southwest England, mainly near the coast
Height:
Up to 30 cm
Habitat:
Woodland, cliffs, scrub, hedges, moist places
Flowers:
Greenish-yellow, up to 6 mm in diameter, with five lobes, tapering to an extended point. In small, open clusters from the upper leaf nodes, attached by hairless pedicels
Leaves:
Broad, elliptical, hairless, leathery, up to 6 cm long, with a raised midvein and backwards-pointing prickles on the margins. In whorls of four to six along the rigid, square stems, which have bristles along the angles
Season:
June to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
