Blinks
(Water Blinks)
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Montia fontana
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April onwards
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An annual to perennial herb of acidic or neutral, seasonally or permanently wet places, including springs and flushes, where it often grows in bryophyte-rich communities, the sides of lakes, rivers and streams, damp tracks and paths and winter-moist sand or gravel. 0-945 m (Mt Brandon, S. Kerry), with unlocalised records from 970 m in the Scottish Highlands.
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Pink Purslane
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Claytonia alsinoides
(Claytonia sibirica, Montia sibirica)
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April-July
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An annual to perennial herb of damp, bare sites, often found in open woodlands or hedgerows, or by shaded streams from where it may be washed downstream to new sites. Predominately lowland, but reaching 425 m at Dockray (Cumberland).
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Flower from Dartmoor in Devon in May
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Flowers from Dartmoor in May
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Foliage in May
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Form from Dartmoor in May
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Spring Beauty
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Claytonia perfoliata
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April-July
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An annual of open, sandy, disturbed ground, occurring as a weed in farmland and in gardens, and also under light shade, such as Breckland pine-belts. It is absent from wet and ill-drained soils and from limestone. Lowland.
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Flower from 6 May
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Flowers from Ightham in Kent on 6 May
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Foliage from Ightham on 6 May
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Form from Ightham on 6 May
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