red sandwort spurrey

The erect stem, simple or branched, rises to about a foot high terminating in the large flowers, neady three-quarters of an inch across. The upright spurrey red sandwort slender seed-pod is about an inch long. The flowering period is from March to June. Ramblers in the chalk districts of Southern and Eastern England may come across this spurrey sandwort red eurious, rather uncommon, plant. It is a coarse-growing perennial, its large radical leaves divided into five or six narrow leaflets, those that occur on the upper part of the sandwort red spurrey flowering stem are more or less reduced to the condition of divided bracts.
Along the south and west coasts of England, and in the Firth of Forth, but rarely on the Irish coast spurrey sandwort red, this plant may be found growing from crevices in the rocks. It is much more rare generally, than it was formerly. It has an erect, branching, woody stem, rising from red spurrey sandwort three to six feet high, and three or four inches thick. The leaves are large, long-stalked and velvety, and roundish in genera³ outline. They are cut into five or spurrey red sandwort seven lobes with rounded teeth; they are also plaited, the folds running from the stalk along the middle of each lobe and a reverse fold to the indent between the sandwort spurrey red lobes.