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Hybrid
detail
Close up of flower head
with Common Blue damselfly
with white sepals
just emerging in mid-April
with early morning dew on the petals
seed head
caused by the larvae of a gall wasp
Red Variety
With emerging dragonfly on stem
a very pale example of this early-flowering violet
Flower Head
Flower Head closing
Flower Head closed
an invasive species from North America
Carthamus mitissimus
A parasitic plant with no chlorophyll. Its host is Field Eryngo
A parasitic plant with no chlorophyll
