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. Grey-Wilson, C. (1994) Eyewitness handbooks. Wild Flowers of Britain and Northwest Europe. Dorling Kindersley, London.
  4. Mabey, R. (1996) Flora Britannica. Sinclair-Stevenson, London.
  5. Grigson, G. (1996) The Englishman's Flora. Helicon Publishing Ltd. Oxford.
  6. Preston, C. D., Pearman, D. A. & Dines, T.D. (2002) New Atlas of the Flora of Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press, London.
  7. Byfield, A. (2003) Plantlife. Pers. comm.
  8. Fitzgerald, R. (2000) Wildlife Reports. British Wildlife, Volume 11 (3): 217.
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