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Bupleurum tenuissimum (Slender Hare's-ear)

image: Slender Hare's-ear Gilkicker Point, 2000. Link to next page - Calystegia sepium

Top left: showing leaves; Gilkicker Point, Gosport, Hampshire, UK, 28th June 2007.

Top right: showing flowers, Gilkicker Point, Gosport, Hampshire, UK, 2000.

Right: close up of leaf - upper surface on the left; stem & leaf nodes centre, underside of leaf lower right, Warsash, Hampshire, UK, 27th June 2007.

Below showing fruits, Gilkicker Point, Gosport, Hampshire, UK, 2000.

image: Bupleurum teniusimum (Slender Hare's-ear), Gilkicker Point, Gosport, Hampshire, UK, 2000

image: Bupleurum teniusimum (Slender Hare's-ear), Warsash, Hampshire, UK, 27th June2007

This is another plant that can be hard to spot; being green and slender, they blend in with the grass. The Gilkicker plants were about 8cm high, & those at Warsash about 17cm. They can apparently grow to 50cm.

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