Photos: Co. Wexford |
Blue Fleabane Flowerheads with pale purple ray-florets and yellow disc-florets. Yellow achenes with long, reddish-white pappus. Stalked leaves in basal rosette soon wither. Clasping, narrow, unstalked stem leaves. Erect reddish stems. Height 8-40cm. Sandy or gravelly ground, dry pastures, waste ground. Mainly central and SE Ireland, declining. |
Blue Fleabane. September 2010