Hi Jacqui,
Might be a long shot but I wondered if it looks like a Silene of some sort. The
leaves look opposite, but I can't see if they narrow to the base to form a long
petiole. The leaves look a bit narrow generally so I hesitate to suggest White
Campion Silene latifolia?
As a very long shot Silene nutans is supposed to have lanceolate to
spoon-shaped basal leaves, and it's a pretty scarce plant of short chalk
grassland. It's sort of in the right area but I'm not so sure it's a plant of
semi-improved grassland.
Chris
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Thank you Vivien and Ralph for your suggestions.
It
doesn?t look like the devil?s-bit that I am familiar with but viper?s bugloss
might be worth considering, although it was in an area of semi-improved chalk
grassland (where I am conducting a NPMS survey) and there were no plants of
viper's bugloss anywhere in the kilometre square that I could see. I will keep
an eye on it
Jacqui
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Barry Yates for one will probably know young Vipers
Bugloss plants well enough to say yay or nay to that!
Ralph
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Thank you Vivien and Ralph for your
suggestions.
It doesn?t look like the devil?s-bit that I am familiar with but
viper?s bugloss might be worth considering, although it was in an area of
semi-improved chalk grassland (where I am conducting a NPMS survey) and there
were no plants of viper's bugloss anywhere in the kilometre square that I could
see. I will keep an eye on
it
Jacqui
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