Enchanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) (18/07/2023) Tottington Wood, Small Dole, Henfield. Nothing else quite like it. It isn't a Nightshade as in Solanaceae, but a Willowherb, hence Onagraceae. This is a particularly pink sepalled specimen, they are normally greener than this.
Enchanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) (18/07/2023) Tottington Wood, Small Dole, Henfield. A delicate-looking plant with leaves (see later) much larger kind of dwarfing the visual size of the flowering stems.
Enchanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) (18/07/2023) Tottington Wood, Small Dole, Henfield. The sepal cups which end up turning down more around the flower exposing the fruit as it develops complete with hooked hairs for attaching to animal fur! This is the pink-sepalled spescimen from the earlier image.
Enchanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) (12/07/2020) Horton Wood, Small Dole, Henfield. The giss of the plant.
Enchanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) (07/08/2023) Horton Wood, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex. A more usual green-sepalled specimen.
Enchanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) (07/08/2023) Horton Wood, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex.
Enchanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) (07/08/2023) Horton Wood, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex. You can just see the frilly pink stigma poking out beneath these anthers.
Enchanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) (18/07/2023) West Mill Lane, Small Dole, Henfield.
Enchanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) (18/07/2023) West Mill Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. Glandular hairy, even the sepals.
Enchanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) (18/07/2023) Tottington Wood, Small Dole, Henfield. This one with the pink sepals is even more glandular hairy than the specimens with green sepals.
Enchanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) (12/07/2020) Horton Wood, Small Dole, Henfield. Classic leaves.
Enchanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) (18/07/2023) Tottington Wood, Small Dole, Henfield. This is the pink-sepalled specimen - maybe its sun-stressed.
Enchanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) (07/08/2023) Horton Wood, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex. The developing fruit complete with hooked hairs to attach to animal fur.
Enchanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) (18/07/2023) Tottington Wood, Small Dole, Henfield. Fruit from the specimen with the pink sepals - not as green as the one from the specimen with the green sepals!