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Plant of the Day

Sunday 18 September 2022

Even though it is autumn a few plants of Parnassia palustris (grass-of-Parnassus, bog star) are continuing to flower and setting seeds. This is a wildflower of short grassland on cliff tops and can be exposed to sea spray thrown up by storms. It has been described as “a flower of cold beauty and a symbol of the wilderness and wet”.

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 14 July 2021

The flower of Parnassia palustris (grass-of-Parnassus, bog star) has been described as a “cold beauty and a symbol of the wilderness and wet”. Here it was growing on the short turf of a cliff top meadow in Westray, Orkney. The white flowers have veins of translucent green above heart-shaped leaves.