Purple milk-vetch [Oxytropis halleri]. Bettyhill, 15/06/89 ~ While it can be found in a couple of locations in the Perthshire hills (not Lawers though), this plant is an alpine which in this country is happiest among the sand dunes of the north coast, where it often keeps company with another lovely alpine, the Mountain avens, Dryas octopetala.
Common milkwort [Polygala vulgaris] Ardgour, 28/05/84 ~ Milkwort, along with such as Tormentil and Bedstraw, is part of the poor bloody infantry of the hillside flora, little considered and less esteemed, but I have a fondness for it.'Een like milkwort, and milk-white cotton hair', wrote Hugh MacDiarmid.
Milkwort ~ These flowers, which can range in colour from this gentian-blue through mauve and pink to white, are of very complex construction. I could copy out a full-page description of one from a book, but I doubt if you would thank me for it.
![Purple milk-vetch [Oxytropis halleri].
Bettyhill, 15/06/89
~ While it can be found in a couple of locations in the Perthshire hills (not Lawers though), this plant is an alpine which in this country is happiest among the sand dunes of the north coast, where it often keeps company with another lovely alpine, the Mountain avens, Dryas octopetala.](https://www.streapadair.com/img/spacer.gif)