Common Fiddleneck - Amsinckia micrantha
It is a very hairy plant with deep yellow trumpet shaped flowers that have five very short petals. It grows to about 50 cm.
Amsinckia lycopsoides - there is one very old record in VC55
Corolla without hairy scales
Photograph of whole plant
Weed of arable land and waste ground preferring sandy soils.
May and June
Annual. It is an alien from America.
Occasional with most records coming from eastern England.
Rare in Leicestershire and Rutland. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.
Graham Calow
B4114, Sharnford
09 May 2018
Steven Lewis
Welby
05 June 2016
Graham Calow
B4114, Sharnford
09 May 2018
Graham Calow
B4114, Sharnford
09 May 2018
Craig Mabbett
Lutterworth, Rugby Road
20 November 2021
Graham Calow
B4114, Sharnford
09 May 2018
bristly leaf
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Species profile
- Common names
- Common Fiddleneck
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Family:
- Boraginaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 4
- First record:
- 05/06/2016 (Lewis, Steven)
- Last record:
- 16/04/2024 (Smith, Peter)
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Steven Lewis
Welby
05 June 2016
Graham Calow
B4114, Sharnford
09 May 2018
