Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). An interesting plant, there are no umbellets, sinply compound umbels.

Sanicle (Sanicula europaea) (09/06/2022) Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). An interesting plant, there are no umbellets, sinply compound umbels.

Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). This one has a flower minus its petals, so you can see the green sepal tubes and also the red wiry hooks which will be atop the developing fruit. It is these hooks that cause the fruits to attach to animal fur and then spread!

Sanicle (Sanicula europaea) (09/06/2022) Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). This one has a flower minus its petals, so you can see the green sepal tubes and also the red wiry hooks which will be atop the developing fruit. It is these hooks that cause the fruits to attach to animal fur and then spread!

Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). You can see that the plant is mostly leaves - you can just make out the tiny flowering umbels at the top of the mass of leaves.

Sanicle (Sanicula europaea) (09/06/2022) Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). You can see that the plant is mostly leaves - you can just make out the tiny flowering umbels at the top of the mass of leaves.

Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). All leaves are basal - there are no stem leaves, just leaf-like bracts beneath each flower head and at stalk branches.

Sanicle (Sanicula europaea) (09/06/2022) Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). All leaves are basal - there are no stem leaves, just leaf-like bracts beneath each flower head and at stalk branches.

Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). The leaves can be quite large and are rounded in outline.

Sanicle (Sanicula europaea) (09/06/2022) Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). The leaves can be quite large and are rounded in outline.

Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). Upper stem leaves are bract-like.

Sanicle (Sanicula europaea) (09/06/2022) Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). Upper stem leaves are bract-like.

Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). Reverse of leaf with back lighting showing the veins.

Sanicle (Sanicula europaea) (17/07/2022) Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). Reverse of leaf with back lighting showing the veins.

Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just into the reserve from the main Henfield Road). Reverse of leaf without back lighting!

Sanicle (Sanicula europaea) (17/07/2022) Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just into the reserve from the main Henfield Road). Reverse of leaf without back lighting!

Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). The leaf-like bracts beneath the umbel.

Sanicle (Sanicula europaea) (09/06/2022) Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). The leaf-like bracts beneath the umbel.

Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). Fruits with their mass of hooked hairs all ready to attach to passing animals!

Sanicle (Sanicula europaea) (09/06/2022) Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). Fruits with their mass of hooked hairs all ready to attach to passing animals!

Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). Crapppy image, but you can see a few spent flowers - the five lobed sepals still visibile.

Sanicle (Sanicula europaea) (09/06/2022) Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). Crapppy image, but you can see a few spent flowers - the five lobed sepals still visibile.

Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). Another crappy image showing developing fruits with their hooked hairs, left one more developed, petals falling away.

Sanicle (Sanicula europaea) (09/06/2022) Woods Mill Nature Reserve, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (just in from the footpath entrance from the main road). Another crappy image showing developing fruits with their hooked hairs, left one more developed, petals falling away.