Lungwort flowers
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Lungwort
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Lungwort |
Harilik kopsurohi |
A plant of fertile soils, flowers in deciduous and mixed forests, at the same time as liverworts (Hepatica). Just opened flowers are pink, slowly changing to lilac, sometimes carmine red; with age they bleach into pale blue.
This early flowerer is a perennial, with a creeping, well branched rhizome that allows the lungwort to spread. The above-ground stems grow out from buds on the rhizome; the buds develop already in midwinter. And already when the snow melts it is possible to see the flower buds.
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