An early spring flower of the bogs, springs and wet areas, this plant is equally happy in the lowlands or in the hills. In my early days botanising I was told about an exotic Golden Saxifrage to be found in some woods thirty miles away. I got detailed directions, travelled there by car, searched the woods and eventually found the plants in good numbers for the very first time. A few years later, exploring a small coppice only about a quarter of a mile from home, I found a splendid clump of Chrysosplenium oppositifolium which had obviously been living there for years. Don't you just hate it when that happens?
Cwm Idwal, Snowdonia, 9th May 2001
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