1. Farmers used to use the flowering of whitlow grass as a sign to sow spring barley. I found it growing in the steps of the lychgate of Woolhope Church, Herefordshire – useful for checking every Sunday! [Mordiford, Herefordshire, December 1991].
Images: Tombland, Norwich, Norfolk, April 2016.
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