Toothwort

Toothwort spikes in woodland, Hog Cliff
Nature Reserve, West Dorset

Single one-sided spike

Flowers: glandular calyces, protruding pink
corollas, scale (replacing leaf)

Pink corollas with styles and stigmas

View into corolla - 3-lobed lower lip, stamen
filaments and protruding style

Close-up of corolla - upper and lower sepal-
like, hairy pinkish calyx lobes, pink concave
upper corolla lip, purple 3- lobed lower lip,
and capitate stigma

Close-up of style with yellow capitate stigmas,
encased in immature stamens

5 stamens - pink filaments, white anthers

Close-up of single stamen

Toothwort spike gone to seed

Seed capsules inside calyces

Oval capsule

Toothwort spikes blackened by drying