Plant
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Size
30–80 cm tall (occasionally to 1.5 m)About knee to waist height
Lifespan
Perennial; individual plants can live several years
Rarity
Common
M vs F
N/A — flowers are hermaphrodite
Habitat
Chalky and neutral grassland, hedgerows and roadsides, favouring well-drained calcareous soils
Best time
July–September
Conservation
LC
💡 Did you know?
Field Scabious's pale lilac, pincushion-shaped flowerheads are a magnet for bees and butterflies, making it one of the best nectar plants in a chalk grassland meadow.
What looks like a single Field Scabious flower is actually a tight head of many small florets, with the outer ring opening first — a flowering strategy shared with its relatives in the teasel family.
Often confused with
Devil's-bit Scabious (rounder flowerhead
blooms later into autumn)
Small Scabious (smaller
more finely divided leaves)
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