Great Britain
Set B2 - Wild Flowers
- card information
42.
Wild Mignonette
(Reseda lutea L.)
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Dry
soil is favoured by the wild mignonette and it is not uncommon
on the chalk downs. It is related to the garden mignonette but
is a taller and stiffer plant and the flowers are scentless. It
has a deep tap-root and erect branching stems up to about three
feet high. The leaves are deeply and irregularly lobed, or sometimes
pinnate. Those at the base have often withered away by the time
the conical racemes of greenish-yellow flowers appear.
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