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Friday 7 February 2014

Petasites fragrans - 07.02.14

Found by Michael.


Winter Heliotrope (Petasites fragrans).




4 comments:

  1. Yes that's the one I was writing about lower down, but I couldn't see (or smell!) any flowers earlier this week.Perhaps Michael had them on file from a previous year,he doesn't put a date on them. They are very sweet smelling.

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  2. Oh I've just noticed the date in big numbers across the top!

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  3. That is the day they were photographed

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  4. On looking it up re its wider distribution I find that it can be an aggressive coloniser at the expense of native plants. It shades all other plants out as its broad leaves make a low canopy over over the soil.

    It's most common in SW England and parts of Scotland near the sea.

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