How did this pretty little flower get its unfortunate name? Apparently,it was believed to infest sheep with lice. It may just be that the liver fluke and lousewort live in the same damp, boggy places. This is just your common or garden lousewort, the juicy red flashy marsh lousewort comes out soon around Kit Hill. It has a rattle very like yellow rattle hence red rattle.
To me it looks like purple toothwort but smaller. See this page http://tamar-valley-life.blogspot.com/2006/04/toothwort.html
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