5616 x 3744 px | 47,5 x 31,7 cm | 18,7 x 12,5 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
26 juillet 2012
Lieu:
Norfolk England UK
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A striking wild plant with tall spires of large pink flowers and leaves that grow like a staircase around the stem. Rosebay willowherb is a fine example of a 'pioneer species' - the first plants to colonise a barren area with very little competition (such as the sites of forest fires). For this reason it was a familiar sight following the London Blitz Common throughout England, Wales and south-east Scotland. As a pioneer plant, rosebay willowherb thrives on waste ground.It flowers in late summer July-September. London has indelible memories of the drifts of purple willowherb in the bomb sites of the second world war. Today it mingles with buddleias and Michaelmas daisies on railway banks, old walls and waste ground.