Red Bartsia - Odontites vernus

Usually under 30 cm tall, hairy and often purplish. Stems are fairly erect and often squarish. Flowers reddish pink 8 to 10 mm long, The lower lip somewhat deflexed, the anthers often protruding.

Meadows, scrub, roadsides, field boundaries and waste places.

July to October.

Annual - often common where found.

Fairly frequent throughout Britain.

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 208 of the 617 tetrads.