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Tree Stump, Upper Port Wood
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Grantown on Spey and Lochindorb
Tree stump with Common Cow-wheat (Melampyrum pratense) and Chickweed Wintergreen (Lysimachia europaea, formerly Trientalis europaea) at Upper Port Wood, Grantown-on-Spey. Common Cow-wheat is an indicator species for ancient woodlands, which are now scarce across Scotland.
25 July 2024
Chickweed Wintergreen, Loch Arkaig
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Allt Mhuic Loch Arkaig
Chickweed Wintergreen (Lysimachia europaea), a plant in the family Primulaceae, at Loch Arkaig, Invernessshire.
20 May 2024
Chickweed Wintergreen, Grantown-on-Spey
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Grantown on Spey and Lochindorb
Chickweed Wintergreen (Lysimachia europaea, formerly Trientalis europaea), is a plant in the family Primulaceae. It is a herbaceous perennial plant that is a woodland indicator species. In Scotland Chickweed Wintergreen grows on acidic, organic soil in pine, birch and oak woodlands. The plant ranges from 5 to 20cm in height and the stem is unbranched, usually with one or two white/reddish flowers. The leaves are thin and form a rosette around the stem. Taken near Grantown-on-Spey, by David Palmar.
25 June 2023
Chickweed Wintergreen, Grantown-on-Spey
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Grantown on Spey and Lochindorb
Chickweed Wintergreen (Lysimachia europaea, formerly Trientalis europaea), is a plant in the family Primulaceae. It is a herbaceous perennial plant that is a woodland indicator species. In Scotland Chickweed Wintergreen grows on acidic, organic soil in pine, birch and oak woodlands. The plant ranges from 5 to 20cm in height and the stem is unbranched, usually with one or two white/reddish flowers. The leaves are thin and form a rosette around the stem. Taken near Grantown-on-Spey, by David Palmar.
25 June 2023
Chickweed Wintergreen, Grantown-on-Spey
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Grantown on Spey and Lochindorb
Chickweed Wintergreen (Lysimachia europaea, formerly Trientalis europaea), is a plant in the family Primulaceae. It is a herbaceous perennial plant that is a woodland indicator species. In Scotland Chickweed Wintergreen grows on acidic, organic soil in pine, birch and oak woodlands. The plant ranges from 5 to 20cm in height and the stem is unbranched, usually with one or two white/reddish flowers. The leaves are thin and form a rosette around the stem. Taken near Grantown-on-Spey, by David Palmar.
25 June 2023
Chickweed Wintergreen, Grantown-on-Spey
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Grantown on Spey and Lochindorb
Chickweed Wintergreen (Lysimachia europaea, formerly Trientalis europaea), is a plant in the family Primulaceae. It is a herbaceous perennial plant that is a woodland indicator species. In Scotland Chickweed Wintergreen grows on acidic, organic soil in pine, birch and oak woodlands. The plant ranges from 5 to 20cm in height and the stem is unbranched, usually with one or two white/reddish flowers. The leaves are thin and form a rosette around the stem. Taken near Grantown-on-Spey, by David Palmar.
25 June 2023
Chickweed Wintergreen, Grantown-on-Spey
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Grantown on Spey and Lochindorb
Chickweed Wintergreen (Lysimachia europaea, formerly Trientalis europaea), is a plant in the family Primulaceae. It is a herbaceous perennial plant that is a woodland indicator species. In Scotland Chickweed Wintergreen grows on acidic, organic soil in pine, birch and oak woodlands. The plant ranges from 5 to 20cm in height and the stem is unbranched, usually with one or two white/reddish flowers. The leaves are thin and form a rosette around the stem. Taken near Grantown-on-Spey, by David Palmar.
25 June 2023
Chickweed Wintergreen, Allt Mhuic, Loch Arkaig
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Allt Mhuic Loch Arkaig
Chickweed Wintergreen (Lysimachia europaea, formerly Trientalis europaea) on Butterfly Conservation Scotland's nature reserve at Allt Mhuic, Loch Arkaig, taken by David Palmar. Chickweed Wintergreen is confusingly named, since it is neuther a Chickweed (the Pink family - Caryophyllaceae) nor a Wintergreen (family Pyrolaceae), but belongs to the Primrose family Primulaceae.
30 May 2023
Chickweed Wintergreen, Allt Mhuic, Loch Arkaig
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Allt Mhuic Loch Arkaig
Chickweed Wintergreen (Lysimachia europaea, formerly Trientalis europaea) on Butterfly Conservation Scotland's nature reserve at Allt Mhuic, Loch Arkaig, taken by David Palmar. Chickweed Wintergreen is confusingly named, since it is neuther a Chickweed (the Pink family - Caryophyllaceae) nor a Wintergreen (family Pyrolaceae), but belongs to the Primrose family Primulaceae.
30 May 2023
Chickweed Wintergreen in flower, Speyside
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Nethybridge and Dulnain Bridge
Chickweed Wintergreen (Trientalis europaea), best seen in June and July. Also known as the Arctic Starflower, it grows in woodlands in the north of England and Scotland. Its common name is misleading - it is neither a chickweed nor a wintergreen, but a member of the primrose family. Here is is growing in Curr Woods, near Dulnain Bridge in Speyside.
