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Wildflowers and other flowering plants

Below is a non-exhaustive list of some of the many flowers and shrubs to be found growing at Magog Down. Most of these articles include lovely descriptions and history about the plants, written for us over the years by plant pathologist David Yarham. Some articles have been updated recently with new photos of the plants thriving thanks to our Rangers' careful management.

We welcome visitors' photos to help enrich our website, so if you have any you'd like to submit, do send them along to photos 'at' magogtrust.org.uk. Perhaps you've spotted a wildflower that is not yet featured here?

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Greater Knapweed - Centaurea scabiosa

The marbledwhite_on_grknapweed_crop_250 Greater Knapweed is a tall plant (up to 90cm) with eye-catching flowers. It is a favourite nectar source of the Marbled White butterfly, and is very valuable to bees.

Upright branched stems terminate in single thistle-like flowerheads, each having an outer ring of extended, purple-pink "ragged" bracts which form a crown around the central flowers. The plant has deeply dissected leaves which form a clump at the base.

Claire Beale, July 2019

Map of the Down

Wildflowers and other flowering plants

Greater Knapweed - Centaurea scabiosa

See also...

Pasque Flower