As its name suggests, it is late flowering, continuing right through October. It’s a flower of chalk grasslands and sand dunes, and if you’d like to find out more, there’s a very detailed article here.
Monday 5 October 2015
Autumn blooms!
The 1985 SSSI listing for Roughdown Common includes the jewel that is Autumn Gentian (Gentianella amarella). At that time, it seems to have been limited to the steep slopes of the chalk pit in Lower Roughdown. Since then, it has clearly spread and there are a good number of specimens out on Further Roughdown. These are a lot more accessible even if they do take some spotting. If you’ve never seen these flowers before, they are tiny, but well worth the effort required in searching them out.
As its name suggests, it is late flowering, continuing right through October. It’s a flower of chalk grasslands and sand dunes, and if you’d like to find out more, there’s a very detailed article here.
As its name suggests, it is late flowering, continuing right through October. It’s a flower of chalk grasslands and sand dunes, and if you’d like to find out more, there’s a very detailed article here.
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