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Devils-bit Scabious Flowers blue-mauve, short outer florets. Surrounded by involucral bracts. Stalked leaves, oval-lanceolate. Shallow-toothed or entire, mainly near base of plant. Erect stems, usually sparsely hairy. Height: 40-120cm. Widespread on damp ground. Fields, roadsides, heaths, cut-away bogs. Similar: Field Scabious, Knautia arvensis |
Ballingeary, Co.Cork. August 2006
Barleycove, Co.Cork. August 2007