Chaenorhinum minus Small Toadflax

A slender, glanular-hairy, annual toadflax which has small, pale purple, snapdragon-like flowers. It grows as a weed of cultivation and also, commonly, in rudral habitats, on gravelled tracks and along railway lines where it may have expanded its range in the 1960s. In West Glamorgan it is most common in Neath Port Talbot where it is a frequent component of the flora along the gravelled tracks in conifer plantations. There are few records from Gower where it appears to be very uncommon.

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