21 luglio 2006 Zona centro centro-occidentale dell’isola di Mainland , presso Stanydale Temple.
Cercando immagini in rete ero arrivato ad Asphodelus luteus, ma la distribuzione non tornava affatto; allora ho provato a digitare “Asfodelo Shetland”, e sono arrivato a Narthecium ossifragum.
Sì! Come recita la New Flora of British Isles "1. NARTHECIUM Huds. - Bog Asphodel 1. N. ossifragum (L.) Huds. - Bog Asphodel. Stems to 45cm, with 6-20 flowers near apex; leaves up to 30cm x 5mm; tepals 6-9mm, yellow; filaments densely hairy; anthers >2x as long as wide, dehiscing outwards; style 1; capsule splitting along centre of ovary-cells; seeds with long fine projections at each end; 2n=26. Native; bogs and other wet peaty acid places on heaths, moors and mountains; common in Ir, Man and W & N Br, absent from most of C & E En and CI. Vegetatively distinct from Tofieldia (Tofieldiaceae) in leaf-margin glabrous (not with minute teeth along 1 edge near apex" Lo Scottish Asphodel è invece la Tofieldia pusilla