During the Middle Ages, cinquefoil was commonly included in love potions. Burwash Return to list Rough cinquefoil plant. Erect annual native wildflower. Tall, not branched. In addition to waste areas, clearings, edges of forests, moist meadows, edges of bogs or wet areas.
Foliage exudes milky juice when broken.
I find the leaves and the height to be the more distinctive aspects of this plant. Return to list Deeply lobed leaves of the Wild Lettuce. Return to list Wild Lettuce flowers. McVittie hydro dam area.