Cowslips

[SaysSheWithThe80sPerm]

Is anybody able to tell me if this is normal for Cowslips? It's like the yellow flowers have all turned to leaves now the flowers are over. I've never noticed them do this before.

So is this unusual, or perfectly normal and I've just been really unobservant other years!

Thanks

I thought you usually got seed heads after the flowers, maybe they didn't fertilise?

Thinking about it I don't recall seeing seed heads. Just yellow flowers and then these little leaf looking things.
Perhaps you're right and it's to do with not fertilising

No, it’s not normal. Normally, seed heads appear. I don’t think the flowers have turned into leaves, it’s that the sepals surrounding the flowers have got confused and developed as leaves which are continuing to grow. Whe primroses do it, it’s called jack in the green.

That’s a pretty special plant, treasure it and see if it breeds

Ooo thank you @MereDintofPandiculation . I will be keeping a keen eye on them to see how they develop.
The strange thing is I have two cowslip plants together which have done this, then a third cowslip in a separate bed which has done the same. First time ever for all 3 of them.

I couldn't find on the internet any reference to a "jack in the green" form of cowslip. I've never seen it, although I've seen it in primroses and in water avens