Common Milkwort, or Polygala vulgaris

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Date:July 1948

Description:This perennial plant lives on limestone hillsides and pastures.

It can produce a wonderful display of flowers in white, blue, or purplish pink.

Flowering between May and December, it can grow up to 25cm in height.

This example was found growing by a disused railway at Yarnfield in Staffordshire, by local naturalist Eric Edees during summer 1948.

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This plant is now cared for by staff at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.

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Fields & Meadows Agriculture & Countryside

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