Honewort (Trinia) - male flowers
This fascinating plant is only found in the UK on south-facing dry limestone slopes in South Devon and the southern slopes of the Mendip Hills. It's one of those little insignificant plants that is well worth having a closer look on a limestone, unimproved hillside. Trinia is mentioned as a local (and valued) rarity in books such as The Sea-Board of Mendip written in 1902 by Francis A Knight. (It was first mentioned as growing in the area by the then Dean of Wells, William Turner, in 1562.) The plant is dioecious (plants are all male or all female - this one is male) and monocarpic (it dies after flowering once). The point about being monocarpic is that it is not an annual - it can be biennial or perennial - but still only flowers once like an annual.
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Location: Hellenge Hill, Somerset, UK
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