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lands, copses, dry banks, on stony, sandy soil, hedge- 

 banks, roadsides, hilly waste places, quarries. On 

 sandy soil it grows in the dry sandy oakwood, forming 

 societies or small groups. Being abundant in the 

 west it is also native on siliceous soils in the sessile 

 oakwoods. 



The habit is erect, pyramidal. The whole plant is 

 glandular, downy and hoary. The stem is erect, 

 simple, or with few branches, stout. The radical 

 leaves are long-stalked, ovate, lance-shaped, scalloped, 

 downy, rough, with prominent veins. The upper 

 stem-leaves are without stalks. 



The flowers are in a one-sided raceme, pendulous, 

 numerous. There are leafy bracts. The ultimate 

 flower-stalks are short. The flowers are large, more 

 than an inch long, purple or pink, with darker spots 

 and blotches, and occasionally white. The five lobes 

 of the calyx are unequal, oblong to lance-shaped. 

 The corolla is irregularly bell-shaped, with the four 

 to five lobes fringed with hairs, the lower two 

 longer. The capsule is longer than the calyx and 

 ovoid. The seeds are angled, small. 



The plant is 2-4 ft. in height, or occasionally as 

 much as 6 ft. or more. The flowers bloom between 

 June and August, and the plant is a herbaceous 

 biennial or perennial. 



Honey is secreted at the base of the ovary. By 

 the pendulous position of the flowers the honey is 

 protected from the rain, and from creeping insects by 

 the hairs in the corolla. The flowers are so large 



