Corncockle  (Agrostemma githago)

Species information

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Authentication

Information authenticated by Plantlife, the wild plant conservation charity:
http://www.plantlife.org.uk

Glossary

Annual: lives or grows for just one year.
Calyx: all of the sepals (floral leaves) of a flower, which form the protective outer layer of a flower bud. (See http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/ksheets/pdfs/flower.pdf for a fact sheet on flower structure).
Sepal: a floral leaf (collectively comprising the calyx of the flower) that forms the protective outer layer of a flower bud. (See http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/ksheets/pdfs/flower.pdf for a fact sheet on flower structure).

References

  1. National Biodiversity Network Species Dictionary ( July 2002)
    http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nbn
  2. Press, B. & Gibbons, B. (1993) Wildflowers of Britain and Europe. Photographic field guide. New Holland (Publishers) Ltd. London.
  3. Fitzgerald, R. (2000) Wildlife Reports. British Wildlife, Volume 11 (3): 217.
  4. Grey-Wilson, C. (1994) Eyewitness handbooks. Wild Flowers of Britain and Northwest Europe. Dorling Kindersley, London.
  5. Fisher, J. (1987) Wild Flowers in Danger. H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd. London.
  6. Mabey, R. (1996) Flora Britannica. Sinclair-Stevenson, London.
  7. Grigson, G. (1996) The Englishman's Flora. Helicon Publishing Ltd. Oxford.
  8. Preston, C. D., Pearman, D. A. & Dines, T.D. (2002) New Atlas of the Flora of Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press, London.
  9. Byfield, A. (2003) Plantlife. Pers. comm.