London pride - Saxifraga umbrosa x spathularis = S. x urbium
Grows to 30 cm in height, forming wide mats of rosettes of spoon-shaped, long-stalked leaves with scalloped margins. Small, pink-flushed white flowers are borne in lax panicles.
Usually found as an escape from cultivation and often close to habitation. It often manages to establish for a time in the wild.
Flowering from early summer.
An evergreen perennial.
A widespread escape from cultivation in Britain.
Occasionally recorded as an escape from cultivation in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Ulverscroft NR, Poultney Wood
21 June 2023
David Nicholls
Ulverscroft NR, Poultney Wood
21 June 2023
David Nicholls
Ulverscroft NR, Poultney Wood
21 June 2023
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- London Pride, Londonpride
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- Wildflowers
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- 21/06/2023 (Nicholls, David)
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- 21/06/2023 (Nicholls, David)
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