This plant is not too difficult to find in the Channel Islands but I haven't yet seen it on the mainland. It is a rootless parasite which appears to be a tangle of stems and small white flowers with no beginning and no end. Although Stace says it is red-stemmed, this particular plant was red at one end (above) and bright yellow where it covered the yellow flowers of Galium verum so I think it takes on the colour, through absorption of pigment, of the plant it is parasitising.
St Ouens, Jersey, 21st June 2004
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