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A plant which grows in rough pasture, copses, by streams and by roads throughout the British Isles. Its stem is covered in spiney prickles. Its...
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leaves form a cup with the stem and in this way the plant traps water in which insects sometimes drown. It is not known if the plant gains benefit from this. It produces small pink or white flowers. The species usually finish flowering in August but this late flowing plant was pictured in early September at the Old Warden railway cutting.
Subjects: Biology, Science
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