Lesser Skullcap - Scutellaria minor

Description

Short, rather slender plant. The leaves are usually untoothed and mostly unstalked. Flowers are pinkish, 6 to 10 mm long with a more or less straight corolla tube.

Identification difficulty
ID checklist (your specimen should have all of these features)

pinkish flowers

Recording advice

Photograph of whole plant in flower and close-up of flowers. (RPR)

Habitat

Found only in quite damp habitats.

When to see it

Flowers July to October.

Life History

Perennial

UK Status

Found throughout much of Britain but becoming more scarce or absent further north.

VC55 Status

Scarce in Leicestershire and Rutland, with several small and potentially vulnerable populations, all in Charnwood Forest area.

In the Flora of Leicestershire (Primavesi and Evans 1988) it was found in 4 of the 617 tetrads, but was not recorded in the Flora of Rutland (Messenger 1971).

It is listed on the current VC55 Rare Plant Register (Hall and Woodward 2022) as Locally Scarce (i.e. present in 4-10 sites)

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Species profile

Common names
Lesser Skullcap
Species group:
Wildflowers
Kingdom:
Plantae
Order:
Lamiales
Family:
Lamiaceae
Records on NatureSpot:
3
First record:
26/07/2012 (Woodward, Steve)
Last record:
30/06/2023 (Lee, Rob)

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