Parnassus-Grass Family:-

Parnassus-Grass Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Orchid to Parnassus Grass Wild Flower Families Gallery:-

Common Name

Botanical Name

Flowering Months

Habitat

Grass of Parnassus

Parnassia palustris (for Britain and Ireland, but Parnassia grandiflora for USA)

July onwards

A perennial, shortly rhizomatous herb of base-rich flushes in short grassland, mires, fens, dune-slacks and machair. The last two habitats support the coastal ecotype, var. condensata. 0-1005 m on Ben Lawers (Mid Perth).

Flower from Durness in Sutherland on 8 August

Flowers from Durness in Sutherland on 8 August

Foliage from Durness in Sutherland on 8 August

Form from Durness in Sutherland on 8 August

Flower from Hirschegg on 15 July

Flower bud from Durness on 8 August

Foliage

Form