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Description: Hemp-agrimony is a tall and bushy plant which is in no way related to the plants hemp or agrimony. It has a woody rootstock and downy shoots that may have short branches with toothed segments, but the leaves on stem braches are lance or egg-shaped. The flat flower heads are pinkish-purple or, more rarely, whitish and have earned the plant the local name of raspberries and cream in some areas. Hemp-agrimony is a perennial herb that flowers in late summer and early autumn. The flowers are pollinated mainly by butterflies and moths, and to a lesser extent by bees and flies. Cross-pollination with flowers in the same flower head can also occur.
Flowering Season: July to September.
Habitat: Found in a broad range of wet and damp habitats, such as marshes, wet heath, wet woodland, fen-meadows, dune slacks and beside water. It is not as common in dry habitats, but it may occur in dry woodlands, waste ground and on hedge banks.
Distribution: This native plant is widespread and common throughout much of the British Isles, and is also found in the Channel Islands; but becomes scarcer towards the north and is mainly a coastal species in Scotland. It is absent from the Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland.
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