Thursday 26 May 2011

The Star of the Wood

Whilst walking in my local park this evening, I noticed this small plant.  About 10cm tall and delicately beautiful, it's flowering in large numbers in the birchwoods.


Not being too good with wildflower identification, I looked it up when I got home. It's Chickweed Wintergreen (Trientalis europaea) which is apparently neither a Chickweed or a Wintergreen but a member of the Primrose family.

As is so often the case, the Gaels have a much more descriptive and evocative name: "Reul na Coille" - Star of the Wood

2 comments:

  1. Excellent. That saves me looking it up! I found it on Bennachie and didn't know what it was either. I thought I was ok at wild flower identification, but it turns out that I'm only good at Orkney ones and the wildflowers in Aberdeenshire are often quite different.

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  2. Hi Fiona, Glad to be of help! I guess having woodland flower species is a whole new ball game after Orkney? I hope you're settling in OK

    Kind Regards

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