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Thesium humifusum (Bastard Toadflax)

image: Thesium humifusum (Bastard Toadflax), Ports Down, Hampshire, 6th August 2009.

image: Thesium humifusum (Bastard Toadflax), Ports Down, Hampshire, 6th August 2009.
Bastard Toadflax in its typical chalk downland habitat.

Ports Down, Hampshire, 6th August 2009.

A very small and slender wild plant; it is more or less prostrate with small star-like flowers which have very small white petals, the stem and leaves are a yellowish-green; the lower picture shows it in its typical chalk downland habitat where it grows on bare or sparsely vegetated disturbed areas.



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