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Bastard-toadflax, Thesium humifusum Family: Santalaceae
Bastard-toadflax
Thesium humifusum



Flowering time: June-September. Perennial. Native

Usually found on heavily grazed, species-rich calcareous grasslands but sometimes on coastal dunes

A prostrate, semi-parisitic plant with fleshy stems and narrow, yellowish-green, single-veined fleshy leaves. Each flower has 5 sepals (white above, greenish on underside) and 3 bracts. The fruit is 2x length of the calyx lobes.


Bastard-toadflax, Thesium humifusum

Bastard-toadflax, Thesium humifusum

Bastard-toadflax, Thesium humifusum
Bastard-toadflax, Thesium humifusum
Badbury Rings, Dorset. September 2018

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