This is a very common roadside plant here on the acid soils of Cheshire. It flowers in mid to late summer but continues in places until the first frosts and beyond so it isn't impossible for me to find this in flower for the WFS Winter Months Hunt starting in December. This is one of those photos which give only part of the picture for the plant is usually full of sage like leaves and has these terminal racemes of flowers.
Cheshire roadside verge, 26th September 2004
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