Love-in-a-mist - Nigella damascena
Upright, bushy plant with finely dissected leaves and solitary flowers that have 5 blue or white, petal-like sepals and feathery bracts, followed by inflated seed pods.
Disturbed or bare ground, usually close to habitation.
Flowers June July.
Annual.
Occasional in Britain as a casual escape from cultivation which rarely persists for very long in the wild.
Rare, or under recorded as a casual in Leicestershire and Rutland. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.
Graham Calow
Wykin Canal Towpath
26 June 2015
Paul Ruddoch
Asfordby Hill
25 June 2015
Paul Ruddoch
Priors Close
23 July 2015
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Species profile
- Common names
- Love-in-a-mist
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Ranunculales
- Family:
- Ranunculaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 25
- First record:
- 07/06/2015 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 11/06/2023 (Nicholls, David)
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Graham Calow
Higham on the Hill
11 June 2015
Graham Calow
Wykin Canal Towpath
07 June 2015
Paul Ruddoch
Asfordby Hill
25 June 2015
Graham Calow
Footpath off Park Road, Cosby
28 June 2016
Graham Calow
Meadow Close, Stoney Stanton
06 September 2016
Graham Calow
Frolesworth
29 June 2015
Graham Calow
Western Drive, Claybrooke Parva
02 June 2016
