Narrow-leaved Lungwort - Pulmonaria longifolia
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Narrow-leaved Lungwort - Pulmonaria longifolia | dylan | Bristol | 7 Nov 2023, 2:53 p.m. | 30 Oct 2023, 2:48 p.m. | |
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Narrow-leaved Lungwort - Pulmonaria longifolia | dylan | Bristol | 7 Nov 2023, 2:53 p.m. | 30 Oct 2023, 2:48 p.m. |
Species Description
Nationally scarce. As a native concentrated in Dorset, South Hampshire and the Isle of White; rare escape elsewhere. Height: Up to 40 cm.
Stace 4:
Pulmonaria longifolia (Bastard) Boreau (P. angustifolia auct. non L.) - Narrow-leaved Lungwort.
Stems erect, to 40cm; basal leaves narrowly elliptic, mostly <5cm wide, white-spotted; stalked glands 0 to very sparse in inflorescence; calyx-lobes acute; corolla blue to violet when open, glabrous on inside of tube below hair-tufts; (2n=14). Native; woods and scrub; extremely local in Dorset, South Hampshire and Isle of White, perhaps rare escape elsewhere.
Key:
- Basal leaves developing at flowering gradually cuneate at base, tapered into petiole
- Stalked glands 0 to very sparse in inflorescence; leaves hispid on upperside, the basal ones white-spotted; flowers pin or thrum