This is a very delicate, small plant only 10 to 20 cm tall found in flushes on mountain sides. It has flowers which usually have proportionately large yellow anthers dangling from the florets but there weren't any obvious ones on this example. This particular plant was extremely small -nor more than 6 cm tall. In fact several of us who were actively looking for T. alpinum, looked straight at the stream side where it grew without seeing it. There are sites for T. alpinum in the West of Ireland, in Snowdonia and some in the Northern Fells of England but its UK home is in the Highlands of Scotland.
Side of small stream near summit of Cronkley Fell, 22nd June 2005
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Added on December 6th 2005