The wild flower which resembles a Town Hall clock

Posted in Nature, Plants on Friday, 14 March 2014

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This edited article about wild flowers first appeared in Look and Learn issue number 589 published on 28 April 1973.

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The Moschatel (bottom, middle) by R B Davis

A common wild plant which is often overlooked because of its small size and insignificant yellow-green flowers is the Town Hall Clock or Moschatel. You may like to look out for it this month because it is in April that it begins to flower.

It is called the Town Hall Clock because the flower head consists of four separate flowers each facing outwards like a town hall clock, with a fifth flower on top facing upwards. Its other name, Moschatel comes from its scent which resembles musk.

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