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ROCK ROSE Helianthemum nummularium Family Cistaceae Common throughout the country, except in Cornwall and West Scotland, where it is rare. On our southern chalk-downs and on banks in gravelly soils the Rock-rose is abundant. The plant is shrubby and its branches trail on the ground among grass and low herbage. It is perennial and has a creeping rootstock. The annual flowering branches extend up to nearly a foot long. The leaves are small, oblong, with an even margin ; the upper surface hairy, the lower, downy. They are arranged on the stem in pairs and provided with long slender stipules. It has only three sepals, but there are two others reduced to the size and shape of stipules. The five somewhat flabby petals have the softness of the poppy. The open pale-yellow flowers vary from three-quarters to one and a quarter inches across. A multitude of stamens surround the pistil ; they are irritable and on being touched fall back from the pistil. Flowering from June to September.

 

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After flowering the petals tum brown rose rock, and when the seed is set the petals do not fall off, but simply dry up and wrap themselves around the seed-pod. The flowering period extends from May to rose rock September. An annual. To be found in dry pastures, meadows and by the roadsides. Abundant in Britain generally but rare in northern Scotland.
The burnished gold stars of this charming Ettle plant will be found as earlyas rose rock February on sunny banks and below pasture hedges or by the roadside. Its roots produce a large number of cylindrical tubers, each of which is capable of producing a new rose rock plant, and reproduction is thus speedily effected. The leaves vary much in shape and size. The larger springing direct from the rootstock are more or less heart-shaped, marked with rose rock whitish patches and sometimes with black or purple-brown blotches. The smaller leaves from the stem may approach the form of an ivy leaf.

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