In the spotlight
Jun 15, 2022
1 minute
In high summer, it forms shimmering, magenta blazes along roadsides, in woodland clearings and on building sites. To the will colonise suitably open ground. Each slender seed capsule holds 300–400 tiny seeds, amounting to some 80,000 seeds produced on a single plant. With a belt-and-braces tenacity, it also spreads by creeping underground stems.
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