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DevonDave

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Re: Flora
« Reply #135 on: 11:22:26, 02/05/17 »
Nice pics pleb.  I've learnt something today.  I often see those blue flowers but never knew they were called Green Alkanet.  You'd think they would be called Blue Alkanet, but I suppose most of the colour is in the leaves.  It's surprising that Greater Celandines look nothing like Lesser Celandines.  I think they are two entirely different species.

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« Reply #136 on: 14:27:00, 02/05/17 »
Nice pics pleb.  I've learnt something today.  I often see those blue flowers but never knew they were called Green Alkanet.  You'd think they would be called Blue Alkanet, but I suppose most of the colour is in the leaves.
To the best of my knowledge green alkanet is not a native wild flower, it is one that has escaped from cultivation (as a herbal plant) and has become a naturalised part of the landscape. Its bristly leaves can irritate the skin, particularly children's.

It's surprising that Greater Celandines look nothing like Lesser Celandines.  I think they are two entirely different species.
Correct, greater celandine is a member of the poppy family while the lesser one is a member of the buttercup family. That's the problem with common names, they can be quite misleading. Only the scientific names as used by botanists make the real differences clear (which is why there are scientific names, they mean anyone in the world, whatever their language, can refer to the same species).

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Re: Flora
« Reply #137 on: 10:44:53, 05/05/17 »

gromwell?
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« Reply #138 on: 10:45:31, 05/05/17 »

crosswort
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« Reply #139 on: 10:45:57, 05/05/17 »
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« Reply #140 on: 10:46:30, 05/05/17 »

borage? Lovage?
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« Reply #141 on: 10:47:10, 05/05/17 »

early purple orchid(?)
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Re: Flora
« Reply #142 on: 12:11:45, 05/05/17 »

gromwell?
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Not Gromwell. I think it is a so-called 'lenten rose' a later spring flowering version of the christmas rose hellebore family.
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Re: Flora
« Reply #143 on: 10:44:39, 09/05/17 »
Got some ID, the above is stinking hellebore, the other one I couldnt ID is Hoary Cress
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« Reply #144 on: 11:13:52, 22/05/17 »

birdsfoot trefoil (?)
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« Reply #145 on: 11:14:20, 22/05/17 »

yellow rattle
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« Reply #146 on: 11:15:09, 22/05/17 »

purple one is vetch, white is stitchwort(?)
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« Reply #147 on: 11:15:31, 22/05/17 »
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Re: Flora
« Reply #148 on: 11:33:40, 22/05/17 »
Nice pics again pleb.  The last one is Pink Purslane, and I agree the one before that is Stitchwort.

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Re: Flora
« Reply #149 on: 17:43:27, 22/05/17 »
Can anyone tell me what this is?  The woods at New Bridge on Dartmoor are full of it.  Referring to my wild flower books I think it may be a member of the Bedstraw family but I'm not sure.



 

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