Milkwort flowers.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheS3OaZQNRnSP2Vf2j3ADVbxfA9Y4iOgud2tk7SMvWNKQPQYRbIdzo6yrV8CrCe-Zx8P3vbRRFt3xTPK6mRYTaGjUE3cfjXSO0RKYeYPsmVI5WH6ao-pCLDVCffGzPs1FVmNzUVEohS1tK/s1600/Milkwort+flowers..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheS3OaZQNRnSP2Vf2j3ADVbxfA9Y4iOgud2tk7SMvWNKQPQYRbIdzo6yrV8CrCe-Zx8P3vbRRFt3xTPK6mRYTaGjUE3cfjXSO0RKYeYPsmVI5WH6ao-pCLDVCffGzPs1FVmNzUVEohS1tK/s320/Milkwort+flowers..jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Wild milkwort flowers.<br /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: #f4ffe4; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div align="justify" style="padding: 0px;"></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border: 0px; text-align: justify;"><tbody></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRLd3RRryClCWp4gk78mcwryoE8Wd7qVyIJFG8oXEjr11K6fSAjSBIbupAfgiqz3Udpu8nSIR-bqUQroW3yRgIvTO1hk-Oqn4do5-L4mEfqiEtrLEcG5IQrtZOeXDN3faVciN0YITZxLRR/s1600/Milkwort+flowers.+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRLd3RRryClCWp4gk78mcwryoE8Wd7qVyIJFG8oXEjr11K6fSAjSBIbupAfgiqz3Udpu8nSIR-bqUQroW3yRgIvTO1hk-Oqn4do5-L4mEfqiEtrLEcG5IQrtZOeXDN3faVciN0YITZxLRR/s320/Milkwort+flowers.+(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGGz8gk1BE_yie37335Ggjk9R4N8pyHhmFS0tIw8XoYBhVusNQ6E4B0HD14uuTaZy9tH4bWF3_Q4n5gAF0otiIXfVvMyhIMJPjWR9jLA7bSQ4cxPlHqV_9IKDKD86-asweiCSEg8as9fhx/s1600/Milkwort+flowers.+(3).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGGz8gk1BE_yie37335Ggjk9R4N8pyHhmFS0tIw8XoYBhVusNQ6E4B0HD14uuTaZy9tH4bWF3_Q4n5gAF0otiIXfVvMyhIMJPjWR9jLA7bSQ4cxPlHqV_9IKDKD86-asweiCSEg8as9fhx/s320/Milkwort+flowers.+(3).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each stem terminates in a spike-like raceme of purple flowers about ¾-4" in length. The central stalk of the raceme is light green to purplish green and glabrous. Each flower is about ¼" long and across when it is fully open, consisting of 3 petals, 5 sepals, several inserted stamens, and a pistil with a single style. Two sepals are enlarged, rosy pink to purple, and petaloid, forming a pair of lateral wings. The remaining three sepals are smaller in size, light green to purple, and ovate in shape. The 3 petals form a fringed tubular structure that surrounds the stamens and style; they are rosy pink to purple, often becoming more white toward their tips. The short glabrous pedicels of the flowers are light green to purple, slender, and often nodding. Sometimes a few cleistogamous (self-fertile) flowers develop toward the base of the raceme; they are bud-like and inconspicuous. The blooming period occurs from early to mid-summer and lasts about 3 weeks. Only a few flowers are in bloom at the same time. Afterwards, they are replaced by 2-celled seed capsules; each cell of a capsule contains a single hairy seed. In addition to the above-ground flowers, Purple Milkwort also produces cleistogamous flowers along underground stems. The root system consists of a taproot.</span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8N7cPYF2MmDnYIeR0z7sUPWdYO5FQav2xgHJ9GuKvpCjmY_s4-_CeDwOjifxC8XQ6u5lo_i01VJGmcSeOZd25SU56N5hJK1Kf8rZE4JAuNbXiL-dX7qfX7rKZiLrbDU2TrF6nhYb5Eico/s1600/Milkwort+flowers.+(4).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8N7cPYF2MmDnYIeR0z7sUPWdYO5FQav2xgHJ9GuKvpCjmY_s4-_CeDwOjifxC8XQ6u5lo_i01VJGmcSeOZd25SU56N5hJK1Kf8rZE4JAuNbXiL-dX7qfX7rKZiLrbDU2TrF6nhYb5Eico/s320/Milkwort+flowers.+(4).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Common Milkwort is a native, perennial, scrambling, patch-forming, low herb, growing up to 30cm.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The small flowers (4-7mm) are purple, blue, pink or white, in short spikes.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Individual flowers have a corollary tube made up of 3 joined petals; an upper entire petal and 2 frilly lower petals. The corollary tube contains 8 stamens.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The flower also has 2 large, coloured, petaloid sepals (like wings) and 3 small green sepals.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leaves are dark green, slightly fleshy and ribbed.</span></div></div>

Milkwort flowers.

 Wild milkwort flowers.   Each stem terminates in a spike-like raceme of purple flowers about ¾-4" in length. The central stalk of the ...

Read more »