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What is this wild flower ?

EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
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It looks like a type of scabious to me, superficially like a Devil’s Bit Scabious. But my plant book says that Devil’s Bit Scabious is found in marshes, and we found lots of this on the Pembrokeshire coast path a few weeks ago - hardly marshland! Also, close-in the petals look the wrong shape. Is it too blue for field scabious?
Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.


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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Sheeps bit scabious is found in dry grassy areas.



  • EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
    I think that’s it, thanks @fidgetbones!
    Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.


  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    I’ve just planted a couple of these this spring. 

    It’s just starting to flower now. 

    Lovely colour. 
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I have these in my wild flower patch

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Scabious sounds like riddled with an itchy disease. Such a pretty flower doesn't deserve such a name.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • joanna65joanna65 Posts: 75
    These are lovely. I got 3 small pots for 50p each in a garden centre clearance section a few years ago and they have flowered profusely every year since. I find they spread a bit but not enough to be a problem. Beautiful colour. 
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited June 2023
    Just wondering...it reminds me of Globularia vulgaris.

    Wonder what the leaves look like?
    Jasione  montana...common name     Sheeps bit scabious.
    see....pic 9

    https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/jasione/montana/
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
    Yes, that’s it @Silver surfer
    Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.


  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,154
    edited June 2023
    B3 said:
    Scabious sounds like riddled with an itchy disease. Such a pretty flower doesn't deserve such a name.

    The rough leaves were thought at one time to help cure 'scabies and scurf' .
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    I got this one:


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