Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles

This feels outside my usual area of competence but I have correctly identified Hieracium chloranthum (Green-flowered Hawkweed) from two sites on Skye.   No other species has such greenish stylose ligules.  I sent one from near Sconser to David McCosh who confirmed its identity and I saw the same thing on Castle Ewen in the Fairy Glen in June.  Stupidly I have no photograph to offer. This species was recorded previously on Castle Ewen in the 1880s by W.R. & E.F Linton, is known elsewhere on Skye and is widespread in northern Scotland

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