Irish Wildflowers - Field Scabious

Photographs: Clonakilty, Co.Cork

Field Scabious
Knautia arvensis
Cab an ghasáin
Family: Dipsacaceae

Flowering: July-September. Perennial or biennial. Native.

Blue-lilac flowers, outer flowers larger, more irregular. Shorter bracts.
Basal leaf rosettes, leaves often hairy, blunt-toothed, usually pinnate.
Upper leaves smaller, less divided. Stems branched, often purple-spotted.
Hairy, erect plant. Height: 40-100 cm.

Prefers dry calcareous/neutral soils. Roadsides, grassland.
Most frequent E, S, central Ireland.

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