This tufted, compact plant has densely crowded leaves and flowers. The flowers of
Common Lousewort are pale pink, each with a three-lobed lower lip and a hooded upper lip, emerging from a papery calyx that expands in fruit. The leaves are divided into small, “frilly” leaflets with crisped edges.
LEAVES : Alternate, pinnately lobed, fern-like.
PLANT HEIGHT : 10–25cm.
FLOWER SIZE : 2–2.5cm long.
FRUIT : Capsule in the inflated, hairless calyx.
FLOWERING TIME : April–July.
SIMILAR SPECIES : Red Bartsia; Marsh Lousewort, which has longer leaves.
LEAVES : Alternate, pinnately lobed, fern-like.
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