17th April 2025

Greater Celandine

This plant is just coming into flower around Staple. This example was growing out of the church wall. It's called Greater Celandine (Chelidonium majus) but is neither a celandine or a buttercup. It belongs to the poppy family. It's rather common and when a stem is broken, it has distinctive orange sap, which was once used as a treatment for warts.