Ploughman's Spikenard

Ploughman's Spikenard is a biennial or perennial herb of dry sites, mainly on chalk or limestone, less frequently on sands and gravels, typically in places where the vegetation cover is broken or in areas of open soil or stony ground. It occurs in dry grassland, on banks, woodland margins, rides and scrub, in quarries and pits, screes (but rarely on cliffs), on the more vegetated parts of sand dunes, on roadsides and rough ground. Rather surprisingly it's appeared in our garden this year, and makes rather a colourful addition to the flora.


No time for any other photography, as I was busy preparing and packing for our trip to Coll and Tiree!