The vanishing flowers of Britain
Independent, The (London), May 9, 2005 by Michael McCarthy Environment Editor
Field Gentian Gentianella campestris
Red Data List status: Vulnerable
A biennial or annual herb with attractive purply blue flowers, found in pastures, hill grassland, grassy heaths, sand dunes, machair and road verges. Locally common in northern England and Scotland, but absent from most of south and central Britain. Gone from 57 per cent of grid squares in recent decades.
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