Rosebay Willow-herb, Tisbury
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Rosebay Willow-herb, Tisbury
Image: © Maigheach-gheal Taken: 11 Jul 2009
Named after its long, narrow, willow like leaves, the willow-herb grows as an upright spike covered with pink flowers. Rosebay willow-herb, or fireweed, was a rare native species which suddenly began to spread in about 1860, perhaps as a result of genetic change; it is now everywhere, except the far west of Ireland, and is abundant on waste land round towns, in cleared woodland and road side verges. Here it is growing in a rough grazing field beside the railway embankment. This field often floods.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.064812
Longitude
-2.071874