Yellow-wort
Yellow-wort / blackstonia perfoliata. Swaddywell Pit, Cambridgeshire. 24/08/21.
I can vividly remember finding Yellow Wort for the first time in 2018, at Devil's Dyke, Newmarket. The plants, scattered along the calcareous grassy embankment, immediately struck me as different. On closer inspection I got fascinated by their upright, grey-green stems and the waxy looking fused leaves growing around them. Certainly not a plant I had ever encountered in lowland Derbyshire.
Fast forward to late summer this year, on a first visit to Swaddywell Pit. There I got reaquainted with Yellow Wort on a mind-blowingly grand scale! There were literally thousands growing in some places on site. When I saw the cup-shaped yellow flowers in the morning, they were fully open. By the early afternoon however, they were well on their way to closing up completely, such is their habit. An impressive spectacle ...
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
Yellow-wort
Yellow-wort / blackstonia perfoliata. Swaddywell Pit, Cambridgeshire. 24/08/21.
I can vividly remember finding Yellow Wort for the first time in 2018, at Devil's Dyke, Newmarket. The plants, scattered along the calcareous grassy embankment, immediately struck me as different. On closer inspection I got fascinated by their upright, grey-green stems and the waxy looking fused leaves growing around them. Certainly not a plant I had ever encountered in lowland Derbyshire.
Fast forward to late summer this year, on a first visit to Swaddywell Pit. There I got reaquainted with Yellow Wort on a mind-blowingly grand scale! There were literally thousands growing in some places on site. When I saw the cup-shaped yellow flowers in the morning, they were fully open. By the early afternoon however, they were well on their way to closing up completely, such is their habit. An impressive spectacle ...
BEST VIEWED LARGE.