The Ragged Robin may be found in moist places, whether wet meadow, ditch or bog. It is a perennial with a short rootstock from which its stem rises to a sativa medicago height of two feet, and is reddish, the upper part rough and sticky. The lance-shaped leaves that spring directly from the slender rootstock are stalked ; the more slender ones medicago sativa on the reddish stem are not. The flowers are borne on loose terminal panicles, red and without scent. The calyx is dark red, with purple veins, and the petals are sativa medicago rosy in colour and cut into four toothed narrow segments, of which the two inner ones are very long, so that the extreme diameter of the flower is about one medicago sativa and a quarter inches.
The flowering period usually extends from March to sativa medicago May, but in some places flowers may be found as late as August. The Marsh Mallow is a perennial of only local occurrence, to be found in marshes near the sativa medicago sea, chiefly in England and Ireland; rare in Scotland and then always south of the Clyde. The simple or slightly branched stems are from two to three feet high. The sativa medicago large, thick leaves are oval heart-shaped, divided in to three or five lobes, which have coarsely-toothed edges. The stems, leaves and inflorescence are covered with a soft, velvety sativa medicago down.
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