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Title: Flora
Post by: PAG1952 on 12:03:29, 18/05/16
Inspired by barewirewalkers dandelions, (and as DevonDave said we're probably all getting board with bluebells) I took my camera for a long walk and took a few photos of the different wild flowers that are now appearing in the countryside around my local area.


Hopefully some of you will add your own pictures, and please correct me if any are mis-identified, which is highly likely.



(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7330/27067999535_9391fe5e4c_o.jpg)Common Vetch (https://flic.kr/p/HeUzea)
Common Vetch


(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7798/26464273413_c108726906_o.jpg)Dandelion (https://flic.kr/p/Gjyju6)
Dandelion


(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7507/27034671986_703730c15c_o.jpg)Buttercup (https://flic.kr/p/HbXL7f)
Buttercup


(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7092/27067756715_6b5690a790_o.jpg)Red Clover (https://flic.kr/p/HeTk3B)
Red Clover


(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7387/26462562264_614bd8d70b_o.jpg)Herb Robert (https://flic.kr/p/GjpxPw)
Herb Robert


(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7501/26793268430_2f214ba74f_o.jpg)Red Campion (https://flic.kr/p/GPCveY)
Red Campion


(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7198/26464063743_9600195296_o.jpg)Red Campion (https://flic.kr/p/Gjxfa6)
Red Campion[/size]


(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7597/27034695486_8520831365_o.jpg)Dandelion Clock (https://flic.kr/p/HbXT6q)
Dandelion Clock[/size]


(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7114/26462307244_67e0d58c03_o.jpg)Hanging On (https://flic.kr/p/Gjof1C)
Hanging On[/size]


(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7469/26999412071_515e6c1d2f_o.jpg)May Blossom (https://flic.kr/p/H8R3yF)
Hawthorn (May)


(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7012/26978858371_84c41eef89_o.jpg)Stitchwort (https://flic.kr/p/H72GEx)
Stitchwort


(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7557/26952994402_0fec40d5d2_o.jpg)Speedwell (https://flic.kr/p/H4K9d3)
Speedwell (I think)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave on 12:24:16, 18/05/16
Great photos PAG1952.  I think you are spot on with all the names too.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave on 13:00:24, 18/05/16
Here's a few more:-


(http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/DartmoorWalker/DAVE-JEN-HP/2015_0410Solomons%20Seal%20SlaptonP1020695_zpsj3o9urua.jpg) (http://)
Solomon's Seal


(http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/DartmoorWalker/DAVE-JEN-HP/2015_0515Tormentil%20near%20OwleyP1020789_zpsxtt84pbi.jpg) (http://)
Tormentil


(http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/DartmoorWalker/DAVE-JEN-HP/2015_0515Yellow%20Archangel%20Ladys%20WoodP1020800_zpsmj1lug0i.jpg) (http://)
Yellow Archangel


(http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/DartmoorWalker/DAVE-JEN-HP/2015_0521Pink%20Purslane%20near%20Budleigh%20Farm%20MortonhampsteadP1020804_zpsgemwqe2v.jpg) (http://)
Pink Purslane


(http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/DartmoorWalker/DAVE-JEN-HP/2015_0523Wild%20Garlic%20near%20Shaptor%20WoodP1020824_zpsouikstv8.jpg) (http://)
Wild Garlic, also known as Ransoms


(http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/DartmoorWalker/DAVE-JEN-HP/2015_0621Orchid%20StoverP1020894_zpsqzk0ldrl.jpg) (http://)
One of the many types of Orchid (not sure which one)


(http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag7/DartmoorWalker/DAVE-JEN-HP/2015_0804Poppies%20near%20YealmptonP1020994_zpsgjph0i2y.jpg) (http://)
Poppies
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: PAG1952 on 13:21:30, 18/05/16
Absolutely stunning photos DD. Possibly a common spotted-orchid?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave on 14:48:24, 18/05/16
Absolutely stunning photos DD. Possibly a common spotted-orchid?
Thanks.  Yes, you could be right about the orchid.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: CallMeSteven on 16:46:57, 18/05/16
One word - Beautiful  O0 O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave on 17:04:43, 18/05/16
Thanks Steven, I have always had a keen interest in fauna & flora and always try to get some photos while out walking.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: alewife on 18:06:18, 18/05/16
Lovely pics both. Wild garlic is ramson, and that isn't solomons seal, not sure what, I might have guessed a cultivated snowdrop but someone else will know (I am in France, so no ref books to check for you).

The white snowdrop like one maybe summer snowflake according to google?

Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dovegirl on 18:45:52, 18/05/16
Gorgeous photos from both    :)   
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave on 19:06:01, 18/05/16
Thanks alewife & Dovegirl.  Yes alewife, that was a typo - it should be Ramsons.  I stand corrected on the Solomon's Seal too.  Having had another look at it I think you are right, it is a type of snowdrop.
Hope you're enjoying your trip to France. 
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 20:33:34, 22/05/16
Carpet of bluebells? No, early purple orchids!
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/013_zpsgkyu8hxz.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 20:35:12, 22/05/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/015_zpsebo7yhw2.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave on 22:09:57, 22/05/16
Nice pics pleb.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dovegirl on 22:48:08, 22/05/16
Lovely photos pleb    :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Rather be walking on 12:25:20, 25/05/16
Great Photos.
 Just walked the Hangers Way on the weekend, loads of Wild Garlic up here, we sunk out the Hawley Inn ;D mind you we weren't the only ones  :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 14:29:31, 09/06/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/003_zpsom0qm7io.jpg) (http://)
birds foot trefoil
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 14:30:12, 09/06/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/002_zpsqrxd34x1.jpg) (http://)
sweet cicely going to seed
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 14:30:42, 09/06/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/001_zpsef9kr5ks.jpg) (http://)
hedgerow cranesbill?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 14:37:04, 09/06/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC19538_zps3gxh0ylx.jpg) (http://)
southern marsh (?) orchid
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: PAG1952 on 14:54:29, 09/06/16
More great photos, but I think the Birdsfoot-trefoil  looks more like Meadow Vetchling ( but that could just be my lack of knowledge talking).
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: dittzzy on 00:10:12, 12/06/16
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YppLx416WiTray3WixEG5rRdmQ8gP7RaeicMVG1WfPjXGwQuWhXiCNXNr6FivEFzVg0pB3e763QmGdfBAC7D2M7NR72A-a2SyPJS40UrY16W3AWzVhTqLi1rsu2ojFJrZjvjGl3ld-p5uANiS67eFZV63uF804ljzzpw-0OKX4MqiyqM9C4hyTii-iMp5okAfhj8LXOUViGTctL86nwPvhpS8iqI3CsmaBQyj1qecDovIPs-haRHVSb3Eu2tRXmEkC5A52fF8vC-olQE6UJCXqCg03NNImzzBi6N94I62trvKdCHE2ZL6FDds1DCpN5hwhdhVIN4wwaY89DACh8IbvHe9Hq0JDrkKt9oZJ09WPuLSyTX9mVj1B8ksMXzC56NPC4HuxYxK3eJsim9ZXZK2q0Npbd3BLYnx1mU_ZBfp64FrloaQnmh91UAbAzv-GlgKDqFX0qBvi_Y9UNWhr5H3Qx3O2t5R55d4R9Gtpo3OC47QMSe-TwfkuAiSbMcjo38bBrdtJCCDKfOZv-Yo6LBSlJWZLbaXma6kEEKA7hWc5IFAMm7E22RI1A8yz4s3RyBIpqCdk51kFX2X7CgkcZ5wnE3wM89yU8=w530-h941-no)


Does anyone know what this is, the closest I can find seems to be Bath Asparagus or Wild Asparagus - but that's pretty rare, and this was seen in North Yorkshire ??? ???
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: alewife on 08:36:08, 12/06/16
Picture in't working! :(
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: dittzzy on 13:42:45, 12/06/16
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/H32_11mNDJ2g5TSkDX6CEaNZBEWlGWszZBuFXyFbS8XlClpnVc9T3tPZneR6jW4_vL5Dvl-jRO5qj9MN33C32LPShVk9iv37AtY550jzdRBNv5e3LR1JI582MhyElcyt25IsDDcP8ZSSDmiYflNSCUwQsqaoS9bFIe-1hmSacdMJZz0wCjwwhczb9Jivtag6I6KJg5-MBs9neuZpY15mqAzv1ZKxAxNPpqhTSLEbpCMUjr55yo5xw5aDm32TnJJLZGvv9KxCdmEgBYN-LxxmgG4bDi6tjroLef3G_WYfD_IUKx-ESZj1Dgud-6Ns8SjU6V3njE2PWovsrKEBmDScgB9iBZu577Cy3sCw_Mx4mclESuo1PPQ1aoC5JtZ49acfkUGNbYoJd4qZ7FdPFqUuCmlBy9A3qNGi9IczOE7SKt_yBxZ1o1nOFrvMkHHcdu1kp_KD0Grmq4RBuwFTCEScyuwYxCSy0tPPlfM_EklDwCeMVY3rHPf_FDPFyAN71FFUpB_7lrwcsRHQW9v5l0lWqlgmx1USGcClThkY8wB6yJbi_vsEBEKRXmYd5lmFged5SuCQC3RDuGFJ64zjFki6ajBHYIxAfnI=w530-h941-no)


Trying again
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 09:06:24, 13/06/16
Hi Tracy,


Possibly one of the Star Of Bethlehem varieties. Will show pic to a friend for confirmation.


Tracey :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 10:56:31, 13/06/16
Inspired by barewirewalkers dandelions, (and as DevonDave said we're probably all getting board with bluebells) I took my camera for a long walk and took a few photos of the different wild flowers that are now appearing in the countryside around my local area.
(http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u297/barewirewalker/dandelion%20on%20sleeper%20wall_zpshmqxhtlw.png) (http://)

Thought I would put said dandelion up  ;) . Most impressed with the superb pictures of flora that this humble offering has sparked off. Perhaps the least appreciated aspect of walking and worthy of a topic of it's own. I think that anyone interested in taking photos such as these may well have committed the heinous sin of stepping off the righteous way. I know of a bed of orchids in a wood that can be seen from the RoW but to take a close up the walker would have to stray more than the 5m allowed to avoid an obstruction.
Of course a little trespass such as this is rarely seen by the person who might take offence and so no damage done  ::) .


Should you see a tree and want to get the light behind it, how far might you have wander? It is such little observations as this which show up the inherent common sense within the 2003 Scottish Land Reform Act, when compared to the rigidity of only being allowed access by RoW.


I know there are members, who know of farmers, who are sufficiently civilized to share this aspect of our countyside but when you wonder why there are others who do not, you might, like me, think it is due to the anti-access poison that is being trumpeted abroad by the CLA.


On a happier note, lets not forget the humble fungi.
(http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u297/barewirewalker/IMG_8855_2_zps04zdjofm.jpg) (http://)


and safely taken in Scotland  :D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 14:37:07, 15/06/16
(http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u297/barewirewalker/red%20hawthorne_zpsr3yekk8a.jpg) (http://)


I took this last year, it is part of a field hedge, red Hawthorne. It intrigued me is red Hawthorne an indigenous species
Quote
This tree dates from 1858 and is a sport (mutation) of pink hawthorn that was found in Herfordshire and was noted to have flowers of a more vibrant and far deeper shade.



I presume the website I took this quote from meant Herefordshire, but of course it could be Hertfordshire. Spell checker tells me I have spelt the county Hereford is the county town of  wrong and wants me to correct to Hertfordshire, now I am totally confused but it is beautiful flower
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: alewife on 18:03:50, 15/06/16
Red may, yes I believe it is native. I grew up in a house called Redmay. We had a huge red hawthorn tree in the back garden. It came down in a storm, narrowing missing everything nearby including the house but lay in front of the door for sometime till my dad could get to cutting it up. It made life interesting for a while as the house only had a back door so we had to clamber over the tree each time we went in and out.

We never got a replacement tree to 'take' in spite of a number ofvattempts.

Nice pictures.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 17:52:05, 16/06/16
Red may, yes I believe it is native.  We had a huge red hawthorn tree in the back garden. It came down in a storm,


Thanks, I think your experience highlights a problem conservationists seem to miss. Your huge hawthorn may only have been 100 -150 years old, where our hawthorn hedges date back 1000's of years. The Romans discovered the Gauls using laid thorn hedges as defensive barriers, a laid or pleached hedge was relaid every 60 or so years so prolonging the life of that hawthorn tree indefinitely. The flowering hawthorn May Blossoms we see today may only be with us for a few more decades.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: dittzzy on 22:13:41, 18/06/16
I've had a brilliant day to day at the RSPB reserver Salthome.  Not only did I get to see loads of birds, inc a few I'd not seen before, I also got to see a few flowers that were completely new to me:

Viper's Bugloss

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pqFIKsoFeO79pFMZlFGq3R2qTC4PBVTMQCOl2KQy4bESwlkWlqbHoXH5eKRerUskNU3A5ERUkrV9SnDNHotxzF3GscspLCnIx42CmKRcfFY2TMGHN4UVaVWTpzRXqldSfhWYNL-1Xaf7ntfoVKhnw1jSc5IWvD0e6FQQBUTsIDnedo5dWZMuOsMuQMth63GksQokJhUz4KzvlaCZWmwwBefQpnvPAIGUxR-Mt3qyGLrb4BmH3Bf5XOhhYqD9i3prH552_wrMRiyb74GmSBeaBBs0oi6rIEpiEuUij_b3r9WmEQ6cJa2f2BI13m95eGZTJQt_6nV_qLgJw4TxO9pZAhaVuzq_GKFDTGvva7i8htJZgIkNQjEOCg4PoMhAINUQWXs5QwN1-x-05qhweTemZQuxkeUbh1lD2aIPzRe2_YZ47QjboUbR0d9QrzqEtOIubDL6Gib3ud6i9O0b4b0LFgvnGQ8AeePUepP6bWrkDOdjkOlRJGreLylEtAY6hmFe5BAfKh27xwqDKinh8kOfgdr1ztUuOKvqVm5pmr83WWnopQL2JEAPD3fLIiKRFa3gcJ2P0QfPI7H4Vq86614pYCp0z7QE1YM=w432-h941-no)


Dove's Foot Cranesbill
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/dubO36VogpP40k_XPTCfWkkISAHLk5CfkIO_Yl3e0wlOjcY5vrUJQuJxTTYm9cQEbbIlyM1M61rw7iOGCA9tj-Jc7kPvelNQgnW6gEL1oQZKwuO6Nb1zr8tI5lBw1oeYwB_uV4zUuduFidcGv5bBUPjWd4nEJqObHaVBxQ8PI6xGb19Hxc6_30VUpEZ362l8BxLrBu1Nc5HoE-UaVCGhU_Sv_ftW7mB36UG0hqrS3OaJtTaTWw48Rh5OXT2mpBbyR1pp2SAvJeU4mP6HakEuxedZTP9y_fBq-p7TiT1PYwmwu_IvBHO-qesI-XMKHUpnpHzJE3paBJyk_JVu7dmDCqVfYNYFcq461bq7n-i4M0eZpEpQu8KC33H_ujuL0P-6Sa9XQ9GH3sZ_--ZG3t-cuxI-UUHsjD-KyP3HgX0LeqNSOvdxDtR2gzVfuOmDV1Mk2IE0T8y_F8YbMxiB-tyryitkvCQXTZYL1Bl4F18oXpgVZzxCEsby3j4bQp-Ks5gOC5lh6_ae5jYwfxF4wKJZ4WPLv8nt1MPf-VdIjz0CvyQLMitCrGStzjC7Rnzqslzt5h2Jk89KDVxnLz4r51yzGOolwQVuvfI=w943-h659-no)


Woody Nightshade (not quite as poisonous as it's deadly namesake)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/B1berG58QR0QCo1elFKBzsbb4y5K8J6W8WDpebBlvQA8leuBkdL-9r9zHcVcTym70BkfUmadwuIlvN0vPdFhKC3K_8TR3HTnnWZQg1Pqaa-gjld_jWFMvif8ON_W1W54wl8bFHTpbmeXo7F6qyzvBkPpAx7XQ4yeJFlqntnFwzecTm4U8xiRdFP_Q-UxcTvx6lrf2SzkI97bLPXKyG6qhoLcUjyfcn-4ifhgRBedp_RiIrDgrs2KlvEbLL9Q4d-wZ_f8gryvsyUm7DGcV7pfHaxl4MTRFxFDB819diXrDhgvijVPQ9yJ5cm-LG0AvwEbiF-vGSTFvC6I6ElU0Y6T30BHaMBScTtALjRO8_w4fy7qTKTV1nyjdKtGnmys_Df8uvoDgzbtd12lxZTO8mk7bPDSASWFwgT1L549yTBlPgdkh0as4FqFVAQMHkowG7BrWH0-9mYt5O01aYO5MU20wNENZlWsQRaSW5AmmPseVtA5HbR78OWy0tTN583RgwAI2j5BIM8pdCvFiiE5fXss5TMguwqf1JN74AL5QbJlOTpjb7nZJ_wRBKvZjboj1kTqbHlC4A17mIUQzN5n532Cp6n6aJlUTxI=w745-h659-no)


And Cut-leaved Cranesbill
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NmwXsfdGkxZXuAmkWSxUZ4pII_CpSNxbKB8QcShRaLsv7CYakdTJwRHTA-u5u0TaCRaxEJjiWOAUqcK3-EwdllDV2p810Z4nfs7XNzB6waCYko3fv7ogkFhukrXaA8me9sr4GuNBG8NAW_HKoNCQnsjvuzp83212ArvnowaSi4b-buB-sO715czTTwqgsvvPSNgJinOPU2H-K5qvxrNQXzeGWNp-E_TG9PRNWJHKyqhN3LQMwzy_P0ewJpFLyadU79crPQX7XM7bD482PgTC7Twff-QUOOgEmYKOtHq_MlnQn7vJ6E5TRYUTyH3UOM03ip9disJnaqa35sIqkls_EDDy6dw0p4t6NJxlg3zt0kM3itrqCu4lFQMuep6z8io-gGpKnbVoWqezhKWierDYEcwiG1RUxYAe97fMFnN1sycY1nWGxfA2hNbraOCnUw5-leQWSGGNz4ptTNT3yuoaTDgwc5U01PIdX9sW5DR-mJK9RPFmKU5A6spitV6IGGTt9gVBBR0rIsM_eZoz6lr3OR_BMaHcn_dOPoH5STxEBrhkHTwlc4gWvUEsjXKzmXbbh-aq5ShcIwA6KGVccWV_p1Ed-y6R7BA=w482-h659-no)

Cooooool eh? 8) 8) 8) 8)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 21:48:13, 19/06/16
I can't see your pics Tracy. ???
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: dittzzy on 23:51:59, 19/06/16
Again!!!  Picasa used to be so easy and then they chased it it Google Photo's.  Woopie Doo!   Anyway trying the woody nightshade once more:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pC0yth1Z_w86uqholJBOmG7BknRx84KM-c3ApE1TJmZj4PPYMvRyyjDSyCfGVvJZOGhov34Xxa_8H9Uiyp0SY7VfTki34m7f0O0beHTjVOI76XhQRJWcgAGNeRIzVQHMwF0njGSV4wGFOA15mLKGS4PWFuBT9hzBlfkaKpMIN7sBwbr6TFFVoxBgvF8EtTARaqAXrvIF09uReToVdMB7dnNA_C4GmacwiwU0HnHKqRVOteqdRcyIVXTGyAvRMTeGUkoBxpFqKiSMZJvYcMgFfekOEdLqs0-rfzSn20bXJOo2Tq03PRzm6h--RFl3QDYxMDBV64WgykYFsWVTmMBJQwZl96Qh_chzIZxj8eyGuyZlCfMZ4vH_9rM538RWPxIrvOUqef-P43S6nKS33pQ82ZI07I_8pMT4x2LvKI82OHAT5nld4l1ZF078rJGXVNygcMWIdCY1jEWh0JA-MBh7Jlksf60KTFmbDeFIjS2iUE4C7izXEOGt7Z_o2US8VXAJSN6oiu0Gi8hjszZu8TfhVCDqQbMsq9ibKERNjTlgwxneIc2yBEvuJtcGnvbgcCrCZ7-lYAXHA_aV-Caop6r8CaTvBUIEOyE=w989-h876-no)


Hopefully you'll be able to see it.





Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:48:05, 20/06/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10024_zpsh06md4kv.jpg) (http://)
tiny speedwell?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:51:34, 20/06/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10022_zpsil3xre0q.jpg) (http://)
milkmaid or milkwort (forget which) is the tiny mauve one
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:55:32, 20/06/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10020_zpspvcfsqfu.jpg) (http://)
need a bit of help with this one!
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:56:46, 20/06/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10018_zpsjf9kishe.jpg) (http://)
bloody cranesbill
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10017_zpsg4ajsde0.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:59:15, 20/06/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10015_zpsjq93og0k.jpg) (http://)
thyme
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:01:23, 20/06/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10007_zps1hqsnfyt.jpg) (http://)
wood cranesbill
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:02:48, 20/06/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10005_zpsecbpy2lr.jpg) (http://)
meadow cranesbill
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:03:51, 20/06/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10003_zpsjjozdltt.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:04:14, 20/06/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10009_zpsrizwx5ar.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave on 13:09:06, 22/06/16
Pleb, the white flower that you say you need help with had me puzzled, so I looked it up and I think it is St. Bernard's Lily.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: vizzavona on 13:31:42, 22/06/16
....the one that you need a little help with :)
Star of Bethlehem...ornithogalum umbellatum.
I have some of these at home....I keep  in a shed during the winter....it flowers very early but only for a short time...when there is no sun the flowers closes up.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 13:40:01, 22/06/16
Ta, think I go with star of bethlehem too O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave on 15:06:39, 22/06/16
Yes, I stand corrected, I think you may be right, although they do look similar.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: vizzavona on 06:44:23, 23/06/16
Both are of the Lilia...Family or is it Tribe...and out of wee bulbs. :) Like many of the flora easy at a quick look to mix-up and I am no taxonomist? :)
If I knew how to get an image on here I could send one.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 07:37:12, 23/06/16
Like your fungus photos Pleb, particularly the one against the rocks.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:11:37, 01/07/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10033_zpso12kjty2.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:14:46, 01/07/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10037_zpsdivzgt7p.jpg) (http://)
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10040_zpsihltzjkn.jpg) (http://)
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10042_zpsntnifulj.jpg) (http://)
v
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10049_zpsralr9i4k.jpg) (http://)
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10050_zpshv3jc4xd.jpg) (http://)
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10057_zpsyyhos0ft.jpg) (http://)
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10056_zpsn6jo2n5r.jpg) (http://)
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10054_zps310yaovt.jpg) (http://)
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10053_zpsfefd3avk.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dovegirl on 13:21:08, 01/07/16
Lovely pictures Pleb    :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 15:58:12, 05/07/16
Ragged robin
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/Image030_zpseftzf44j.jpg) (http://)
Agrimony
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/Image026_zpscqdvj94b.jpg) (http://)
St.Johns Wort
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/Image022_zpsed178ya9.jpg) (http://)
marsh woundwort
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/Image020_zpsp0pqmh09.jpg) (http://)
garden variety (?) loosestrife
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/Image018_zpsgepobwrp.jpg) (http://)
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/Image009_zpsquwl9jyo.jpg) (http://)
unknown. Help?
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/Image003_zpsb9jjamdd.jpg) (http://)
orchid
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/Image000_zpsbjrsnq0f.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 17:48:09, 05/07/16
The "Garden variety (?) loosestrife" is indeed Yellow loosestrife, Lysimachia punctata, that is often grown in gardens.
"Unknown. Help?" is Spotted deadnettle, Lamium maculatum, another garden escape.
The unlabelled one above that is a Bedstraw, Galium species, but difficult to tell precisely which one.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 19:11:58, 05/07/16
Ta very muchly O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 15:31:53, 07/07/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10078_zpsai9yraqn.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 15:33:52, 07/07/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10077_zpsuczgs9dl.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: dittzzy on 23:20:16, 07/07/16
But you haven't told us what they are!!!!   :D :D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:34:42, 08/07/16
But you haven't told us what they are!!!!   :D :D
Oh somebody tell me for a change! ;D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 11:32:43, 08/07/16
A stab in the dark:
In the first photo the pinkish flowers look rather like Corncockle, nowadays a rare arable weed but it is commonly included in wild flower seed mixes.
The red buds are probably Scarlet pimpernel.
The little white flowers, though, are unfamiliar to me.
The second photo appears to be Viper's-bugloss, a tentative i.d. helped by the narrow pointed leaves that can be seen down the stem below the flowers; the larger leaves in the picture are not connected with it I think.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:45:32, 02/08/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10129_zpsfb30w8gj.jpg) (http://)
monkeyflower
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:45:59, 02/08/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10128_zpst7aecrgh.jpg) (http://)
mint of some sort
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:46:30, 02/08/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10122_zpsstgafxfl.jpg) (http://)
hairy maize?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:47:15, 02/08/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10113_zpspjqjnraz.jpg) (http://)
harebell? Didn't look quite right somehow :-\
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:47:50, 02/08/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10111_zpswp2zffgi.jpg) (http://)
native yellow loosestrife?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:48:23, 02/08/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10110_zpsymclz0nw.jpg) (http://)
bellflower of some sort
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Forkbeard on 16:28:55, 02/08/16
Apologies if this has been posted and I've missed it, but can anyone tell me what this is?:
(http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w456/jimmathow/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160802_144849500_zpszmuisdef.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 16:45:57, 02/08/16
pleb, your Harebell is just the white variety I think....and I'm almost sure the same goes for the clustered bellflower.


The Loosestife looks like Dotted Loosestrife.  I didn't know there was a dotted variety until I found some recently!


Forkbeard....yours is Bell Heather.


Tracey :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Ridge on 17:34:16, 02/08/16
Poppies on yesterdays walk, phone pic so not great quality.
(http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn129/Birkhouse/WP_20160801_001_zpscpqpalwx.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 21:24:04, 02/08/16
Here's the Dotted Loosestrife I mentioned earlier....


(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13906945_1248354561849962_1253359511691243931_n.jpg?oh=7011b04cbaf32597a60f628f070a2e7c&oe=58254BC3)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:25:03, 04/08/16
Dotted loosestrife? I must google that...............
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Trenchfoot on 08:11:27, 05/08/16
Poppies on yesterdays walk, phone pic so not great quality.
(http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn129/Birkhouse/WP_20160801_001_zpscpqpalwx.jpg) (http://)

Love the poppy, not only for it flash of colour that stands out so well - but for what it now represents with our fallen soldiers.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Forkbeard on 10:18:35, 05/08/16
pleb, your Harebell is just the white variety I think....and I'm almost sure the same goes for the clustered bellflower.


The Loosestife looks like Dotted Loosestrife.  I didn't know there was a dotted variety until I found some recently!


Forkbeard....yours is Bell Heather.


Tracey :)

Cheers Tracey, it makes walking a bit more interesting when you know what you're looking at :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 21:58:52, 05/08/16
Cheers Tracey, it makes walking a bit more interesting when you know what you're looking at :)


It sure does!  8)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:25:34, 11/08/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10151_zpsuwgxh9vv.jpg) (http://)
eyebright in monks dale, derbyshire
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:05:09, 25/08/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10173_zpshdljdio8.jpg) (http://)
rock rose
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:05:49, 25/08/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10172_zps3yelwus9.jpg) (http://)
wild (?) ponies
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:06:44, 25/08/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10171_zpsbw7hflne.jpg) (http://)
lighter pinky one is scabious
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:07:19, 25/08/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10170_zpsemri4def.jpg) (http://)
bee on knapweed
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:07:45, 25/08/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10169_zpswqbmwduq.jpg) (http://)
marsh woundwort
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:08:13, 25/08/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10168_zpsftz1fe9t.jpg) (http://)
wild basil (???)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:08:40, 25/08/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10167_zpslnedalog.jpg) (http://)
red bartsia
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:09:07, 25/08/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10165_zpspoufqcfy.jpg) (http://)
clustered bellflower
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:09:31, 25/08/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10163_zpsz14xkhjd.jpg) (http://)
saw wort
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:09:59, 25/08/16
bee on scabious
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10161_zpsngsuhnpo.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:10:29, 25/08/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10158_zpsc1ie26w5.jpg) (http://)
squirrel in garden
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:11:02, 25/08/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10157_zpsbnocssdt.jpg) (http://)
female garden orb weaver
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 12:00:22, 25/08/16
It is clear from your latest flora photos that you have been walking on chalk or limestone!
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave on 14:51:48, 25/08/16
It is clear from your latest flora photos that you have been walking on chalk or limestone!


Ah, that explains it.  I wondered why there are quite a lot there that I don't see down here in Devon!
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:04:05, 26/08/16
It is clear from your latest flora photos that you have been walking on chalk or limestone!
Brockadale YWT nature reserve, Yorkshire. Some kind of geological oddity, magnesium n limestone in same valley!
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:42:41, 08/09/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/Image014_zpskxhdfbc1.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:45:48, 08/09/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/Image017_zpsekimntuu.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:46:33, 08/09/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/Image018_zpsgng83qnd.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:47:18, 08/09/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/Image019_zpsjt47tevg.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave on 11:32:45, 08/09/16
Your mushroom pic pleb is I think a Parasol.  Years ago we used to pick them and they are really delicious, a much better taste than ordinary mushrooms.  Sadly I haven't seen any for years.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 20:52:29, 08/09/16
Yes, field parasol I think.  They grow reeeeaaaalllly big sometimes!


Here's one I saw a few years ago, in Pembrokeshire....


(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/37597_143043859047710_1122262_n.jpg?oh=618f6527df5804cd0311b22b067dc58e&oe=587E970E)



Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 07:55:31, 09/09/16
That's a whopper - you could feed the five thousand with one of those.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:56:18, 09/09/16
I still think they are magic toadstools where pixies live.......................... :D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 16:52:20, 09/09/16
I still think they are magic toadstools where pixies live.......................... :D


Noooo, don't be daft!  That's these ones..... ;)


(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/66495_163253233693439_6686207_n.jpg?oh=779e1dabb08fbec49afa97c64f5fec14&oe=583C9671)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 10:59:26, 24/10/16
On a local walk yesterday this took my fancy;
(http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u297/barewirewalker/flower-hencoat_zps1dwmkz53.jpg) (http://)


Not a garden flower, though I cannot remember it as a common wild flower. It was in a patch sown in the corner of a field as probable game cover, together with volunteer linseed, a very pretty blue flower it was both unusual and attractive. So a little difficult to know what was deliberately sown and part of the native habitat.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Forkbeard on 19:23:37, 26/10/16
Can anyone tell me the name of these? I'm sure they're not rare, just not had time to sit down and search them:(http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w456/jimmathow/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-10-26_07-16-262_zpsamlxvy0c.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 19:30:09, 26/10/16
Hi FB,


I'd say Conifer Tuft or Sulphur Tuft but can't be 100% sure.  They look very much like some I photographed a couple of days ago, which were Conifer Tuft....


(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14725452_1327657237253027_159321950632752891_n.jpg?oh=6588e240ad16a6afdaf73ded391fc8b4&oe=58A9BBCB)


(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14729402_1327657250586359_4594793829681960650_n.jpg?oh=21fd211db7d93e77dca5734206990507&oe=58984BBE)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Forkbeard on 20:02:00, 26/10/16
They certainly look alike... they're growing on the same thing as well.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 22:19:57, 26/10/16
They certainly look alike... they're growing on the same thing as well.


Were you following me??  :D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Forkbeard on 23:31:56, 26/10/16
Ha ha, well not literally the same thing. I think.  ;)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 19:27:25, 31/10/16
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/011_zpsuhcsb435.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Mel on 10:43:21, 05/02/17
Anyone know what this is?  It was growing in abundance along the old railway embankment on the Hornsea Rail Trail:
(https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16426044_1261363127284999_8160591871958694451_n.jpg?oh=855b85341b05b91b04dfc0497dcbf1f5&oe=593D6228)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave on 12:56:34, 05/02/17
Hi Mel, I'm pretty sure it's Winter Heliotrope.  It comes into flower at this time of year.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Mel on 18:09:05, 05/02/17
I've just googled "winter heliotrope" and yes, that's what it is.  Cheers DD  O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 15:37:43, 17/03/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10377_zpsfdoayd5x.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 15:39:17, 17/03/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10376_zpseq5skm7a.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 15:39:50, 17/03/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10375_zps2qnqbii3.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 15:40:22, 17/03/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10373_zpstfz87tgj.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 15:41:14, 17/03/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10372_zpsztklvtr3.jpg) (http://)
this one is strangely pale
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 15:41:43, 17/03/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10371_zpszdilx7ui.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 15:42:11, 17/03/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10370_zpsnqantfaf.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 21:22:42, 17/03/17
Nice to see the flowers beginning to appear O0   I saw my first Peacock butterflies (of the year) on Wednesday and some flippin' huge bumble bees too! :o   Queens just out of hibernation probably...
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 13:08:01, 20/03/17
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13001153_1024051530976423_992560497193949698_n.jpg?oh=0145cd1243b2adac1804ca32cdb96be7&oe=592A9377)

Time for the wild daffodils in Dunsford woods again :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: adalard on 08:30:41, 22/03/17
That's lovely, Jac. It's so nice to see all this colour reappearing after what - for me, at least - has been a very drab winter, with barely a hint of snow to brighten up the damp dullness.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: dittzzy on 22:57:32, 02/04/17
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QwO5nK08fPPGN1gHLR4k4tm-LFnBF83qeVknQDNVNpZq7RIZRHmMMRT2P9wcsDN57xcbDfmd1ZMY6w=w391-h220-rw)
One for Sunnydale, Pleb and/or anyone else that may be able to help.  What's this?  Seen out on a walk in the heathery moors of the Dales, alongside the track.   Thanks in advance guys.  :-)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 08:28:25, 03/04/17
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QwO5nK08fPPGN1gHLR4k4tm-LFnBF83qeVknQDNVNpZq7RIZRHmMMRT2P9wcsDN57xcbDfmd1ZMY6w=w391-h220-rw)
One for Sunnydale, Pleb and/or anyone else that may be able to help.  What's this?  Seen out on a walk in the heathery moors of the Dales, alongside the track.   Thanks in advance guys.  :-)

I can't see a picture :(
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 09:09:13, 03/04/17
I zoomed in  to 300% but still couldn't tell.
If it had been posted a day earlier on April 1st I would have said it was hazel catkins placed in some dead mat grass!

Were there any leaves of any sort?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:09:52, 03/04/17
No picture visible.................. :(
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 11:08:07, 03/04/17
I'm puzzled that the image doesn't show for some of you, though admittedly it's quite small, less than 1/4 of the size of those posted by Pleb and Jac. Maybe it's a browser thing? I'll leave that to the IT experts.

Having now looked at the picture zoomed to 400% on the large monitor of my desktop pc, I would say the flowers are those of a small sedge or a woodrush, though as I'm not at the spot with a field guide and x10 hand lens I can't put it any closer than that.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: dittzzy on 18:09:41, 03/04/17

It's a browser thing.  Wierdly, I can see stuff on Google Chrome that I can't see on Internet Explorer, and vice versa.  Bear with me, I'll post another pic - once I work out how to do it that all browsers can see.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: dittzzy on 21:08:42, 03/04/17

(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/tdittzzy/DSC01098_zpskz6emq4k.jpg)


This one is from photobucket.  Any better?  I still don't know what the flower/plant is.  As far as leaves are concerned I don't think it has any, although that grassy stuff around the flower heads may be part of the plant. 


Anyhoo, I have my plant books and google search at the ready.  Can anyone point me in the right direction.  I've looked at rushes and sedges, but none of the pictures I have match.


Ta very muchly.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 21:33:25, 04/04/17
Hi Tracey,


Your plant is Cotton Grass.  The flowers haven't yet developed to their 'fluffy' cottony stage, which is why they are hard to identify.


Tracey :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: dittzzy on 21:48:34, 04/04/17
Cheers Tracey.


I knew you'd know.   O0 O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 12:05:11, 07/04/17
A favourite of mine at this time of year, a few years ago I would have struggled to find even a small patch of this beautiful flower, the Wood Anemonie and have treasured my special places where I could find them, such as Flying Dingle on Long Mountain. A couple of days ago we walked a popular route around Cole Mere near Ellesmere and there they were in profusion. A real uplift for Mrs BWW, who has been laid low by a very nasty virus and is needing time to recover.
(http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u297/barewirewalker/wood%20anemonies%202_zpsdsvv7neu.jpg) (http://)


(http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u297/barewirewalker/wood%20anemonies%201_zpszapnmlcw.jpg) (http://)



Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dovegirl on 12:39:37, 07/04/17
BWW  -  it's lovely seeing these flowers carpeting the woodlands     :)     
Hope Mrs BWW is feeling better soon
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 17:59:30, 08/04/17
Thanks Dovegirl and Mrs BWW is now feeling better O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 12:51:29, 12/04/17
I like to think up scenarios, to use so that I find out more about the countryside I am walking through, here a few days ago I spoke to a farmer  (http://www.walkingforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=22739.msg494517#msg494517)with the excuse I am interested in old farm buildings and obtained his permission to look around the outside of the farm and take a few photos. Really I was trying to find out about the ownership and occupation of land in the locality.


Not all routes lead to the expected destination, as I have found out with some of my navigation, this farm did have some unusual farm buildings, so my efforts to wheedle info out of the 'old guy', a couple of years younger than myself  ;D , at a guess, but this I thought to a be little gem;
(http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u297/barewirewalker/Yellow%20Corydalis_zps1ldgt0lm.jpg) (http://)
I had no clue to the identity of the flower, but found it to be Yellow Corydalis using this identifacation website;
http://www.botanicalkeys.co.uk/flora/content/species.asp?545


took a bit of time working it out, the leaves are 'whorls' and not 'opposite' and the flower is Zygomorphic, which completely blows my head, But seemed to be worth a try. :D
and fired in clay there are tulips, primroses, snowdrops and wood anemonies? Botanicalkeys were no help there  :)
Anyway hope that is of some interest.

Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:32:51, 13/04/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10419_zpsol651za3.jpg) (http://)(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10424_zpsrj7u1yyl.jpg) (http://)(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10425_zpsxl5bxr0a.jpg) (http://)(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10429_zpso4rllt1s.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 12:40:33, 17/04/17
Primroses on the cliffs near Coleton fishacre
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17904410_1325495890831984_4462063170226519276_n.jpg?oh=a5db577950788382b2661985340c1fed&oe=59814D88)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:50:54, 02/05/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/Image026_zpsrztrgfzi.jpg) (http://)
comfrey
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:51:35, 02/05/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/Image023_zps90rjnvji.jpg) (http://)
cowslip
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:51:58, 02/05/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/Image004_zpslp1wk0xh.jpg) (http://)
green alkanet
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:52:29, 02/05/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/Image001_zpsy36xonzj.jpg) (http://)
greater celandine
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave 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.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman 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).
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:44:53, 05/05/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10455_zpsajvuj2bf.jpg) (http://)
gromwell?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:45:31, 05/05/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10449_zpshhtsktkb.jpg) (http://)
crosswort
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:45:57, 05/05/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10447_zpsqrf3cp2u.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:46:30, 05/05/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10444_zpsmhq74h0q.jpg) (http://)
borage? Lovage?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:47:10, 05/05/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10441_zpslrnh3zxr.jpg) (http://)
early purple orchid(?)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 12:11:45, 05/05/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10455_zpsajvuj2bf.jpg) (http://)
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.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:44:39, 09/05/17
Got some ID, the above is stinking hellebore, the other one I couldnt ID is Hoary Cress
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:13:52, 22/05/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10498_zpsqeamzhee.jpg) (http://)
birdsfoot trefoil (?)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:14:20, 22/05/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10493_zpswtqp7pvh.jpg) (http://)
yellow rattle
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:15:09, 22/05/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10489_zpsybpod6xf.jpg) (http://)
purple one is vetch, white is stitchwort(?)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:15:31, 22/05/17
(http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s466/treehugger1972/SDC10488_zpsmrgsylzu.jpg) (http://)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave 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.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave 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.


(http://i67.tinypic.com/30krjpz.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 19:46:24, 22/05/17
Yes, it is one of the Bedstraws, it is sweet woodruff, Galium odoratum.
Is the soil there a bit alkaline? The plant is not uncommon in woods where I walk in the Chilterns, which are chalky.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave on 22:30:34, 22/05/17
Thanks for that fernman.  I don't recall seeing it here in Devon before.  The soil where it was growing is definitely not chalky, and I would say that the predominant soil type in the area is actually acidic rather than alkaline, but it certainly appears to be thriving there.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:26:57, 21/07/17
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142890672@N04/albums/72157683802951694
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave on 17:57:32, 09/08/17
Can anyone tell me what this plant is?  It grows in profusion alongside Drake's Trail between Yelverton & Tavistock.  I can't find it in any of my wild flower books so I think it may be a garden escapee.


(http://i65.tinypic.com/2wm2fit.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 18:49:14, 09/08/17
Chinese honeysuckle?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave on 19:05:34, 09/08/17
Thanks pleb, but I've just Googled Chinese Honeysuckle and it's definitely not that.  Anyone else got any ideas?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 20:36:07, 09/08/17
No but it grows in a garden down the road! So deffo a garden plant, I have seen it a few times. Thought was ch honeysuckle, dunno where I got that from  :-[
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Mel on 00:11:31, 12/08/17
Some type of Fuschia? 
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave on 08:35:53, 12/08/17
No, I don't think it's a type of Fuschia Mel.  I have come to the conclusion that it's definitely a garden plant though.  Obviously no-one on here is a gardener - probably all too busy out walking!  O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 19:04:33, 12/08/17
It's Pheasant Berry....or it's also called Himalayan Honeysuckle or Himalayan Nutmeg.  Leycesteria formosa


 :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Penygadair on 19:16:38, 12/08/17
Spot on. Used to have one on the garden but it died.


Couple growing wild on the Mawddach Trail near Penmaenpool.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: DevonDave on 20:32:48, 12/08/17
That's it!  Thanks sunnydale.  O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 21:54:14, 12/08/17
That's it!  Thanks sunnydale.  O0


You're welcome Dave :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Mel on 13:53:14, 13/01/18
Saw my first Snowdrops of the year yesterday on some parkland near where I work (sorry, no pic as I wasn't "doing a walk", as such).



Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 19:42:21, 14/01/18
Saw my first Snowdrops of the year yesterday on some parkland near where I work (sorry, no pic as I wasn't "doing a walk", as such).
Snowdrops just beginning to open in Chagford churchyard today and a celandine in flower - hooray spring is here :D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 21:31:51, 14/01/18
Snowdrops just beginning to open in Chagford churchyard today.....




 
....and there a quite a few clumps doing well here in Bakewell too.....in my garden, to be precise!  8)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 22:44:10, 14/01/18
The best I saw during last Thursday's (11th) walk in Hertfordshire were hazel catkins, you know, the long dangly ones, and there were daffs in bud at the side of a lane.

But for me personally January and February are possibly the best time of the year for discovering certain wintergreen fern species which, though reasonably common in the west and the north of the country, are less so in the south-east north of the Thames. This adds an extra dimension to my winter walks. Although last year's fronds are by now flattened to the ground from wind, rain and snow, the plants can be spotted from some distance without all the intervening tree leaves and thick green undergrowth that hide them from view in other months.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 10:46:31, 15/01/18
The best I saw during last Thursday's (11th) walk in Hertfordshire were hazel catkins, you know, the long dangly ones, and there were daffs in bud at the side of a lane.

But for me personally January and February are possibly the best time of the year for discovering certain wintergreen fern species which, though reasonably common in the west and the north of the country, are less so in the south-east north of the Thames. This adds an extra dimension to my winter walks. Although last year's fronds are by now flattened to the ground from wind, rain and snow, the plants can be spotted from some distance without all the intervening tree leaves and thick green undergrowth that hide them from view in other months.

Please, if poss, could you post a picture of the wintergreen fern ( I thought wintergreen was something rubbed on your chest when you had a cold?) I'll never a be a fern (or any other sort of) expert but would be interested as I might spot one being in the southwest. It is that 'extra dimension' afforded by being aware of what is around you that makes walking really worth while.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 14:35:58, 15/01/18
Tricky, without giving you a botany lesson!
The photos below are of what I had in mind. They are scaly male-fern, Dryopteris affinis.
It's a very robust species that has thick and heavily scaled lower stems, and the upper surface of the frond is glossy. During the growing season, mid-May to October, these plants would be around 5 ft tall. It grows on mildly acid soils.
If you want to take the i.d. further, on this species there is normally a dark spot on on the underside of the frond at the junction of each little green "leaflet"  and the stem it is attached to.
The old fronds persist until new ones start unfurling around early May. By comparison, the common and rather similar male fern Dryopteris filix-mas will have died back and gone golden brown by January except in sheltered spots in woodland etc.
A common species in the south-west where you are is the soft shield-fern, Polystichum setiferum; it grows on more limey soils. This is largely wintergreen, and each of the little green "leaflets" (correctly called pinnules) is somewhat sickle-shaped, with a point at the tip and a blunt thumb at its base.
See if you can borrow a copy of "Ferns, Clubmosses, Quillworts and Horsetails of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly" by R. Murphy and others (2012) from a library.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 10:37:10, 16/01/18
 ??? Thank you - I will look more closely at the ferns that I am seeing still green in the woods now. I like ferns, lichen, mosses and liverworts. The colours and forms that they give to the countryside goes almost completely overlooked. Sadly, will never get to grips with the minutiae of identification - just not in my make up - but even the tiniest bit of extra knowledge adds to the enjoyment of a walk.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Mel on 12:27:15, 16/01/18
Cheers fernman.  I also look at the plant life, more so at this time of year as it adds an element of interest on what can be fairly bland winter walking.  That and spotting birds.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Mel on 18:27:13, 04/02/18
Spring is sprunging  :D


Dangly Catkins:
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gAZ12rYNkMo/Wnc-3g56SRI/AAAAAAAACis/7XrD0RAxSt4ZMGrDfS-4nSDoKChvqHYUQCLcBGAs/s320/01.jpg)


Soggy Snowdrops:
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NNkHXEiPzJo/WnXiPfGrm3I/AAAAAAAACeQ/mMUxL6y_uFo_6oZZdCTN1nESABMHGQ2cQCLcBGAs/s320/DSC01437.JPG)


Yellow things:
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3rekNJHWoAg/WnXifju--tI/AAAAAAAACeg/oA1LK8VAvYov6InJtFudzWoXBYkuuJ42wCLcBGAs/s320/DSC01439.JPG)



Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Tin on 18:48:58, 04/02/18
Nice to see signs of Spring  :)


A bit early for them but the yellow things look like they could be a type of buttercup. We do have celandines out here which are in the buttercup family.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Mel on 18:58:16, 04/02/18
Cheers Tin, they could well be - on my close-up nosey at them they did look as if they could unfurl into a buttercup type of thing.  I've just noticed they're next to some Daffy leaves as well.


....OOOOoooOOOoooOOOhhhh Spring is nearly here  :D


Plus, on my walk today, it sounded like there were more birds around... could have been that the existing winter residents were simply making the most of the sunshine too though  :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 19:03:14, 04/02/18
The "yellow things" are winter aconite, and they are indeed a member of the Buttercup family!
They are an introduced species in Britain, just the like snowdrop, but they have been around for so long that they have become naturalised in many places.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Tin on 19:05:52, 04/02/18
The birds are definitely getting noisier here too and our resident woodpecker last week started knocking on the metal plate on the wooden pylon to advertise his presence to any females.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Tin on 19:07:18, 04/02/18
The "yellow things" are winter aconite, and they are indeed a member of the Buttercup family!
They are an introduced species in Britain, just the like snowdrop, but they have been around for so long that they have become naturalised in many places.


Thank you fernman, I was hoping you'd come along to let us know :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Mel on 13:48:57, 05/02/18
Cheers again fernman :)

You do realise you have now appointed yourself as thr forum's Official Recogniser Of Plants Expert :D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 18:45:27, 07/06/18
Any pic I try attach is refused, it always says too big  :(
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dovegirl on 19:30:03, 07/06/18
Any pic I try attach is refused, it always says too big  :(
Are you trying to upload from Flickr?  I resize my photos before putting them on Flickr and haven't had any difficulty uploading them here. Haven't tried it with them at the original size.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:27:03, 08/06/18
No Dovegirl-just from my old laptop.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: dartmoorrambler on 08:59:18, 09/06/18
If you use the insert image option and place the image on another site.(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BbMcpGFbq42XJ4KrO2kg9hjx4ENe35xTRMA8IsBdHjEKFoGHY6aP0RDznYir4GGoQJ-bfd6dPt0Uc1mh0YIDdirDi2ITCpCkmHJNGLPSSXlcHa498AYBAQmrCD-Md1Ec8Ig9_G0U7tWxHnHcFFg05MrA_tzWyUzqCD8Q1JJ8emZInEZ6juKoVca5c9Q6sIZzl9A86NjnJ6P4UGIQDSnyPhaEPWIcFGlOUZAos4O7uk6Y4Vwuk4hYEKX523hCALT7e2M70VFuePg0TxeYxND7d443V06x-hhep4H2cqWM2KjRqaaRVcDGgxvcfxbC67WVfZ7JyMy_kWkxydw9E8optbUhHgYRvC_BwHHUtfiHrvrUtBw-1_5xCiop2us1c68TTNN5lBXWIWFjmTgOq3Y5dA6lbdyt-VbmOu0kaPq_XkJAEeBBiZQtpIm1L3Yitzkij4DrMgV8jPlCZc69Rhtbhl58Qj3-hkSaQJRxfry_IAdruJ9SQ8xouC3RNCZpfNYeTf8eFSY-BYwmTU1qZ4JvojTXMTe-aHj-gMb3hC4Cr45OIsCz7GU3ImtNuVmENJT5m8cvLWhgTZ9N5dWBJ_dfnhaNzVXve1SegWJBc2M=w1009-h757-no)
Google images is another site you can use for free and then link the image here
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: dittzzy on 00:34:49, 22/06/18
Can someone tell me what this is please?
(http://i66.tinypic.com/hx0q45.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: dartmoorrambler on 06:59:15, 22/06/18
Seed heads of cowslip?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: dittzzy on 10:07:44, 22/06/18
Of course!  I knew I recognised them, but I couldn't work it out.  Thank yoooou. 
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:35:47, 06/07/18
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142890672@N04/42513367514/in/dateposted-public/
scarlet pimpernel
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 18:11:16, 09/01/19
It's time to kickstart this thread again.

Stinking hellebore, Helleborus foetidus, in a Buckinghamshire wood on 8 January 2019

(https://i.postimg.cc/wBhDk3qW/2019-01-08-04.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 20:13:32, 09/01/19
Impressive O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 08:38:24, 10/01/19
I think that's what I know as Lenten Rose. Is it native to UK?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 10:22:47, 10/01/19
Nice one Fernman, I hope you found it a decent distance away from the righteous way. Enough to satisfy your adventurous spirit  :D .

All I found yesterday was 1/3 of mile of right of way (FP) that appears someone is try to scrub of the map  >:(
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 10:44:48, 10/01/19
I hope you found it a decent distance away from the righteous way.

In the past I have spotted the occasional one well off the beaten track, but I must confess that the group in my photo were very close to the edge of the Forestry Commission car park!

I think that's what I know as Lenten Rose. Is it native to UK?

Stinking hellebore is a native wild plant but it is also grown in the nursery trade.
Lenten rose is a collective name given to most cultivated hellebores.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 10:46:38, 25/03/19
Summer snowflake, Leucojum aestivum, seen in the Aston and Remenham areas downstream of Henley-on-Thames during my walk last Thursday. Also known as Loddon lily because it grows close to that river, a tributary of the Thames, it is a native that grows in wet riverside woods and scrub. It is nationally uncommon as a wild plant but because it is commonly cultivated it is often found growing as an escape.
Not the sharpest of photos, but it's not easy when you're kneeling with one knee in wet, black mud!

(https://i.postimg.cc/MGWQRqCb/DSC00812.jpg)

(https://i.postimg.cc/pXfQnG9v/DSC00838.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 19:02:16, 25/03/19
ooh aren't they pretty?! 8)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 07:34:30, 26/03/19

Summer snowflake, Leucojum aestivum, ...............................
but it's not easy when you're kneeling with one knee in wet, black mud!



You have to suffer for your art!


I hadn't realised they were a native species
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Mel on 21:40:51, 23/04/19
Can anyone tell me what this lovely little flower is please?


It's a blue-ish purple-y colour with a distinctive dot and stripes on it's "bottom" petal:


(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8CsTmsmNJYk/XL41vBA-7mI/AAAAAAAAF1c/OkEgmE4Scjk8Mz9Xx8s7e9Ilqap1kp6YgCLcBGAs/s640/DSC02012.JPG)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Bigfoot_Mike on 21:51:18, 23/04/19
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/40714466903_57a9f61362_c.jpg)


(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47627764412_810b282d8b_c.jpg)



Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Rob Goes Walking on 05:38:12, 24/04/19
Can anyone tell me what this lovely little flower is please?

Is it the Common Dog-violet Mel?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Bigfoot_Mike on 06:03:00, 24/04/19
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142890672@N04/42513367514/in/dateposted-public/ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/142890672@N04/42513367514/in/dateposted-public/)
scarlet pimpernel


I am not sure Mel would have found the Scarlet Pimpernel. They are very elusive.  :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 09:25:15, 24/04/19
Is it the Common Dog-violet Mel?

Definitely a violet, but it could be any one of about 5 separate but similar species. Depends on location (presumably northern!), habitat, soil substrate, etc., as well as various botanical features not visible in the photo, so best stick with just "violet".

P.S. I am not a botanist, but a pteridologist, still hoping some fern pics will appear on her one day!
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Rob Goes Walking on 09:28:38, 24/04/19
Definitely a violet, but it could be any one of about 5 separate but similar species. Depends on location (presumably northern!), habitat, soil substrate, etc., as well as various botanical features not visible in the photo, so best stick with just "violet".

I bow to your botanical knowledge, the stripes looked like photos of a common dog Violet.

P.S. I am not a botanist, but a pteridologist, still hoping some fern pics will appear on her one day!

Cool job (and your name makes sense now), do you work outside a lot?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 11:14:13, 24/04/19
I bow to your botanical knowledge, the stripes looked like photos of a common dog Violet.

An important separator of two most common species is the colour of the bit that sticks out behind the flower, the spur as it is properly called. Botanists have a nemonic, dark spur = Viola reichenbachiana, because it rhymes with dark, you see, and if it's pale it's the other species. But I won't bore you with any more.

Cool job (and your name makes sense now), do you work outside a lot?

It wasn't a job, I used to be a field service engineer, it has been my principal interest for more than thirty years. I used to travel all over the UK to attend society meetings to see rarities (the price of petrol has put paid to that), I have led meetings myself locally, and I have spent a lot of time surveying woodland and other habitats, recording my finds with grid refs. My records are in national databases and some are published in local floras. I hold the distinction of finding the only known plant of one species in Hertfordshire.

Going out for a day's recording is just like going for a walk, using exactly the same gear. I recall when I particptated in surveying Hampstead Heath once a fortnight for eighteen months, where on my arrival at the meeting hut on a January morning one of the leaders exclaimed, "Good Lord, you look as if you've come prepared for an Arctic expedition!"

I have never had the mental capacity to remember all of the different wild flowers, their varieties and hybrids, not to mention the aliens, but fern species are far fewer in number in the UK and easier for me to cope with. Yet for many botanists even quite prominent ones they are a bit of a grey area, so I have succeeded in a specialised niche.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 19:39:29, 24/04/19
Here's one especially for Richard.
It's cheating a bit really, because I took the photo in August 2012 when Orkney was about as far away in the UK as we could get from the London Olympics.
Richard, the next time you go in the Bishops Palace in Kirkwall, look for this fern growing 15-20ft up on a chimney breast on the first floor, I think it was at the north side of the ruined building. The photo was taken with a telephoto lens looking up at it from below.
It is a variety of the hart's tongue fern that is can sometimes be found in nurseries and garden centres named as 'Angustifolium'.
Some people love such frilly monstrosities, as I regard them, being more of a purist, nevertheless it is pleasing to come across something like this growing wild (although there is always the possibility that it may have originated from spores from a cultivated plant).

(https://i.postimg.cc/DwW3qnjS/2012-08-Orkney-Kirkwall-Asp-scolopendrium-Angustifolium.jpg)

 
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 19:54:18, 24/04/19

I'm not a pteridologist but I really like ferns and always leave them peacefully when they appear in the garden - even in the middle of what might be called a lawn or more accurately a patch of grass with wild things that occasionally gets mown.


Beautiful roses, BM
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 20:19:08, 24/04/19
Quite a few dog violets starting to come out on the clifftops and ditch banks here in Orkney.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 09:03:34, 25/04/19
I'm not a pteridologist but I really like ferns and always leave them peacefully when they appear in the garden - even in the middle of what might be called a lawn or more accurately a patch of grass with wild things that occasionally gets mown.

Good for you! When I have visitors, eyebrows are raised when they see my small lawn which is as much "weeds" as grass, and they look agahst when I tell them it has taken me years to get it like that. It contains meadow cranesbill, greater knapweed, betony and agrimony, amongst others, while mown wood sedge makes a green sward under the apple tree where grass won't grow.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 20:01:07, 25/04/19
Good for you! When I have visitors, eyebrows are raised when they see my small lawn which is as much "weeds" as grass, and they look agahst when I tell them it has taken me years to get it like that. It contains meadow cranesbill, greater knapweed, betony and agrimony, amongst others, while mown wood sedge makes a green sward under the apple tree where grass won't grow.

Sounds quite idyllic 8)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 07:49:28, 08/05/19
Lovely photos of the dog roses, Mike. My wife's favourite flower.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 07:52:25, 08/05/19
Here's one especially for Richard.
It's cheating a bit really, because I took the photo in August 2012 when Orkney was about as far away in the UK as we could get from the London Olympics.
Richard, the next time you go in the Bishops Palace in Kirkwall, look for this fern growing 15-20ft up on a chimney breast on the first floor, I think it was at the north side of the ruined building. The photo was taken with a telephoto lens looking up at it from below.
It is a variety of the hart's tongue fern that is can sometimes be found in nurseries and garden centres named as 'Angustifolium'.
Some people love such frilly monstrosities, as I regard them, being more of a purist, nevertheless it is pleasing to come across something like this growing wild (although there is always the possibility that it may have originated from spores from a cultivated plant).



Very interesting, Fernman. We have a few of garden escapees doing well in Orkney, so that could be its origin. But I have no idea - will do some research.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 08:03:16, 08/05/19

It really is the start of the 'time of plenty' for flowers in Orkney. We've had the daffodils and the dwarf willow, the primroses are in full flow, perhaps just past their best, but things are really starting to kick off now.


Along the clifftops the short heather and grass is studded with violets and squill, whilst on the clifftop edges the thrift and campion (red and sea) are starting to come out. Down in the fields we have fields white with daisies, and the verges are yellow with much maligned dandelions - a spectacular show.


(https://i.ibb.co/v1w3DBV/Clifftop-Violets2019.jpg)



(https://i.ibb.co/wQf0K7B/Orkney-Dandelions.jpg)





Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 10:26:36, 08/05/19
Richard, your mention of primroses has led me to compare it with a walk I did in Hertfordshire on 6 April, when they were prolific. From this I calculate that in your northern location the flora is about four or five weeks behind that of the south-east.
Things here have been held back a bit till now though, for last night and this morning we are having our first rain of any significance since the middle of March!
 
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 12:13:21, 08/05/19
Good close ups of the wild roses. I seem to have a memory that the pink rose is the Dog Rose and the red is the Apple Rose. This distinction was important to those country housewives, who made Rose Hip Syrup, as a winter cold remedy and vitamin supplement. The Apple Rose contains less vitamin C (or none?) than the Dog Rose and as the hips a difficult to tell apart, it was at flowering time the distinction could be made.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 11:19:31, 09/05/19
I think that there can be quite a bit of colour variation between dog roses.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 12:41:54, 09/05/19
Perhaps it is a memory from being taken for walks along country lanes by women, who had just survived the 2nd WW. Rose hip syrup was promoted to offset the risk of vitamin C shortage (http://www.theoldfoodie.com/2014/05/the-rose-hip-collection-campaign-ww-ii.html) in children, several of the wives around farm used to make it. It was recently an old countryman referred to the Apple Rose being the red version of the dog rose and being not suitable for rose hip syrup, funny how a chance encounter can trigger off a deep memory. Long hot summers in the 1950's, ladies with sacks around their waists, reaching out over hedges that had proper thorns in them so that they could pick the haws or hips.

The hand brushed hedge was cut late spring, early summer so briars and bramble were able to grow through them and trail on the thorn mat, never seen in today's machine cut hedges. Funny, the old boy, who had triggered this memory, had the best hedges on his farm I have seen in years, when we first met him, he was actually trembling with rage, that we were walking to his farm and accused us of opening up the public footpath (he thought if no one used it it would lapse). After a bit of coaxing he settled down, showed me a trick to open a hazel nut, with a penknife, which I already knew, but he thought I was a townee.

The reason no one used the footpath we were on, is a lost bridge. During the 1962-3 winter a huge block of ice was carried down the River Vyrnwy, in the thaw, and demolished an ancient stone bridge. Footpaths lead to it on both sides.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 22:01:37, 16/05/19

A northern specialist.


Mertensia Maritima - the Oyster Plant
(https://i.ibb.co/JnTDKs6/MM1.jpg)

(https://i.ibb.co/nmYGH7p/MM2.jpg)

(https://i.ibb.co/dgsxLmF/MM3.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 22:05:48, 16/05/19

..and a gorgeous bunch of primroses on the Orkney clifftops.


(https://i.ibb.co/nQTgCNC/Primroses.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: jimbob on 23:20:09, 16/05/19
I remember gathering rosehips in the 50's.  They were weighed in at the village hall, money handed over and they were sent off to make rose hip syrup somewhere, an important source of income. We also took loads into primary school to help with school funds, as we also did with silver paper. Terrible things to eat raw, they are quite hairy around the seeds and aggravate the throat a lot.

Just remembered being a hip monitor changed its meaning in the following decade.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:12:51, 17/05/19
I've never heard of the oyster plant  :-\
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 17:15:28, 17/05/19
Quite a rare plant, Pleb. Very striking when you see it along the top of a beach - spotted some more today on a beach just a couple of miles away.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 10:42:55, 18/05/19
Lovely photos Richard.  I really like the Oyster plant O0


I spotted a plant that I hadn't seen for a few years....


Lousewort...(Pedicularis sylvatica)


(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/60513975_2500747663277306_9124652539973730304_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_eui2=AeHTuonUNUEWyde-Bj7GaxjigA8EtoH5AQTDVawOhYWJ25etIOoydkfblDRvvAcaVruUe-bSpzICgIQTVeArkddcjnS8y4Bl8KzHqM7DpB_xfg&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr3-1.xx&oh=dff62fc21d9ab1c9759e8c3944ff8ce6&oe=5D66711B)


(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/60489400_2500747739943965_8724378265344540672_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_eui2=AeH9dpFm7kBYYy2WD4G1jwYuzR9rVVwGRRz2FAXJk0Ar8H27KaEavWFvHCJFkfLNBp692NN2fLLV_1G8MurTu6MWF0gO8X07fK7FmdJ1bN2mrg&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr3-1.xx&oh=7783c1d176e16c9cfc3d87ff611665e5&oe=5D61AD9D)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:51:18, 20/05/19
^^^Thats a really good find  O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 09:44:36, 26/05/19
Nice photo, Sunnydale. I remember lousewort from my Snowdonia days.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 09:48:51, 26/05/19

I found this delicate little flower yesterday evening on a local clifftop, and am not certain what it is - I've certainly never seen anything like it in the wild before, either in Orkney or elsewhere.


(https://i.ibb.co/vJWm9sH/Deerness-Flower1.jpg)



I have a hunch that it might be a native form of Star of Bethlehem, but am not sure - I have contacted the Orkney Field Club for advice.


Any ideas?

Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 18:22:33, 26/05/19
It would appear that I have piqued the interest of the Orkney Field Club - no definite answer yet, and this plant is not on the "County List" of plants that have been found in Orkney. Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum) does not normally live in this habitat, and the plant that I have found is much smaller than the Star of Bethlehem plants in my garden.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Bigfoot_Mike on 18:31:29, 26/05/19
It would appear that I have piqued the interest of the Orkney Field Club - no definite answer yet, and this plant is not on the "County List" of plants that have been found in Orkney. Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum) does not normally live in this habitat, and the plant that I have found is much smaller than the Star of Bethlehem plants in my garden.
Maybe they will name this after you, if it is a new species - ornithogalum umbellatum richardii  O0 .
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 18:38:00, 26/05/19
So the whorls of fleshy leaves in the photo are nothing to do with the flowers?
That's cheating! No wonder I couldn't get close to an i.d! I kept thinking it was a stonecrop but they have only five petals.
A SoB growing as an escape and stunted by its habitat, perhaps?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 18:43:58, 26/05/19

Wasn't trying to deceive, fenrman. One of the grass like leaves is visible to the right.


The 'fleshy leaves' are Crowberry, I believe - you can even see unripe berries forming if you look closely. Makes a very fine camping surface - I slept on Crowberry last night.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 21:45:00, 26/05/19
Maybe they will name this after you, if it is a new species - ornithogalum umbellatum richardii  O0 .


 :) Oh I sincerely doubt that!

The opinion of the Orkney Field Club Vascular Plant Recorder is that it is a dwarf form of ornithogalum umbellatum, seeded from a garden or possibly a place where people dump garden waste, but very unusual nonetheless. I suspect that a few people will be up there with cameras this week judging by what is being said on facebook!
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 22:37:06, 05/06/19
Had a bit of a wildlife/nature wander on Monday in an area that seems to be good for a bit of everything, including some lovely wild flowers...


A white variety of Milkwort....


(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/61900734_2536084759743596_2934099379184730112_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_eui2=AeFsX02PdmmVG9TYjETZ2hBn4HoZv9zspOI4RtCIQVYyiuMZIWJL82EnEjBqcSQGYY4oqdYTUZqntRraoRhwTVL4vfgenxLdzR56p47zK7ZQzg&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr3-1.xx&oh=a3733cfc7870b6e4bf2ba2654b3b6c16&oe=5D829658)


Wild Pansies...


(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/61931568_2536084733076932_8180748135677558784_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_eui2=AeHm0bSaSlffhGQc_jFGXR2OIbYCCL-V3VTBbo4RFy3b2W6Jusq491Ap6uoN0CLsqpmzPYm1jPyX-vOwBu75JTUQVeDnB2-xwj04UzhjkyIcmg&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr3-1.xx&oh=5932ee8db95594d3be9294043396317a&oe=5D8FDB4F)


Meadow Vetchling....


(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/62042585_2536085109743561_6969084706960703488_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_eui2=AeFbNQFWiZDunBWipKvgo-WuVdflxEI2fkXS-r39Xcl80gPPPWOw7IU5vmCx183S5jjafz3-Vu1_1H1rIowazHjBkzUYGAIwjus8EV-d_XNJxw&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr3-1.xx&oh=08f1710a30641c1d877ef7352af14cc7&oe=5D9F1535)


Scarlet Pimpernel....


(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/62007184_2536085643076841_4926693106193006592_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&_nc_eui2=AeH30wb_hEnep35yVdXanix_DlOt9AFuGWb22hOEYVi-cBNEr9J_X6jizpXpAD2uVFf9CqPlVD7i_upfnkelhG7Hvj5B0No7639kCvhs9iwk8w&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr3-1.xx&oh=89fa302d5121c707172d28debc61679c&oe=5D97F442)


And my favourite of the day...
A Marsh Orchid... 8)


(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/61777716_2536085219743550_8950041692526870528_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_eui2=AeH-7P4pHTvnN0IQIXleVZJ_FAW78MVGnU6EjFR-GANaB7q7-OVMtnpQ2fSiFH_oW_0CwgtuVxz2glaNLhHg86hm5-FyZxSQbSwupsvl9DqoIQ&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr3-1.xx&oh=ddb86c108b88d2b459e2501a81c1688e&oe=5D9F5134)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dovegirl on 23:25:21, 05/06/19
Lovely photos sunnydale    :)    I think seeing wild flowers is one of the joys of walking   
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 08:23:50, 06/06/19
Lovely close ups, Sunnydale.

The natural wild form of pansies are so much nicer than the vulgar overblown garden varieties.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 08:26:46, 06/06/19
The opinion of the Orkney Field Club Vascular Plant Recorder is that it is a dwarf form of ornithogalum umbellatum, seeded from a garden or possibly a place where people dump garden waste, but very unusual nonetheless. I suspect that a few people will be up there with cameras this week judging by what is being said on facebook!



The consensus now seems to be that it is in fact a white form of Squill (Scilla verna).
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:30:27, 06/06/19
If anybodys reading this, how do I resize pics? Sorry to be cheeky, but somebody will know, I have an old laptop with a resize tool on it, used it ages ago, but cant find it now  >:(  wheres it going to be under? Ta.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 11:18:47, 06/06/19
As with, the birds and the bees, excellent photos  O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 17:32:32, 06/06/19
If anybodys reading this, how do I resize pics? Sorry to be cheeky, but somebody will know, I have an old laptop with a resize tool on it, used it ages ago, but cant find it now  >:(  wheres it going to be under? Ta.



I just use Paint.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 19:18:26, 06/06/19
For Gods sake how do I affix image from my PC? Clicked the attachment thing but my pics dont appear.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Owen on 20:28:26, 06/06/19
If you have Photoshop or such like you can make a copy and then click image, resize, then just upload onto your host site.


If you use image shack, you can resize your images as you upload them, use the resize button.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 21:32:01, 06/06/19
But theres no option to upload.................nowt happens when I click the "attachments and other options"
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: MarkT on 11:31:52, 12/06/19
Some flora pics I took along the Norfolk Coast


(http://oi68.tinypic.com/qqx1j8.jpg)


Not sure what these are but the Bees liked them


(http://oi66.tinypic.com/2lizg8z.jpg)


Daisy's


(http://oi64.tinypic.com/15hhkrp.jpg)


Sea Holly


(http://oi67.tinypic.com/258zg9k.jpg)


Foxglove with a view

Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Owen on 12:24:25, 12/06/19
But theres no option to upload.................nowt happens when I click the "attachments and other options"


Copy and paste the URL
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dovegirl on 14:37:08, 12/06/19
Lovely photos MarkT    :)    I especially like the daisies
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 15:02:25, 12/06/19
What url? Just tried that, all got copied was some letters and digits. No pic.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Owen on 18:15:36, 12/06/19
Which program are you using?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 21:06:32, 12/06/19
Eh? Chrome, was trying to upload direct from my old laptop, doesnt seem possible on here. Works on other forums though, dont understand.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: beefy on 05:48:47, 13/06/19
Eh? Chrome, was trying to upload direct from my old laptop, doesnt seem possible on here. Works on other forums though, dont understand.
Pleb are you trying to post pics from Flickr ?
Post your link on here so I can see it :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Owen on 09:17:58, 13/06/19
Eh? Chrome, was trying to upload direct from my old laptop, doesnt seem possible on here. Works on other forums though, dont understand.


You can't upload directly from your laptop, you need to upload them to a host site and then copy the URL and paste it to here.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:26:25, 13/06/19

You can't upload directly from your laptop, you need to upload them to a host site and then copy the URL and paste it to here.
Ah, didnt realise.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 13:50:14, 13/06/19
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142890672@N04/48055135968/in/dateposted-public/ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/142890672@N04/48055135968/in/dateposted-public/)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142890672@N04/48055133708/in/dateposted-public/ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/142890672@N04/48055133708/in/dateposted-public/)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142890672@N04/48055181592/in/dateposted-public/ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/142890672@N04/48055181592/in/dateposted-public/)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: beefy on 18:25:05, 13/06/19
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48055135968_404bbe814d_z.jpg)



(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48055133708_bfda7f728f_h.jpg)

 
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48055181592_ccfa08a382_b.jpg)

 
Very nice pleb
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 18:40:46, 13/06/19
........especially the strelitzia :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: beefy on 18:43:01, 13/06/19
Pleb watch this video  O0
https://youtu.be/dTELJrgAJYU (https://youtu.be/dTELJrgAJYU)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 15:54:43, 16/06/19
A trio of Gentian from today’s trip. Just can’t  capture the depth of blue somehow with a camera. In real life it really hits you.
(http://i65.tinypic.com/zur3gh.jpg)
In my phone, iPad and Onedrive this picture is the other way up! Help!
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 21:32:30, 16/06/19
Where on Earth did you see the gentian? And what sort is it, spring gentian?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 09:36:09, 17/06/19
Gentian blue is truly amazing - now standing on my head enjoying the pic ;)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 10:31:28, 17/06/19
Amazing picture of the gentian, good shot sir  O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 14:21:44, 17/06/19
Where on Earth did you see the gentian? And what sort is it, spring gentian?
At an altitude of 2000m 1 km NNE from the summit of the Kaiserburg. I have no idea what type.  If you want to see them wild in the UK there is a patch by the stream just above Cronkley Farm by the Pennine Way growing on a bank just north of beck after the bridge. Apparently, nearby on the south bank there is some sort of bush that is only found there and on the Burren in Ireland and one one island in the Atlantic, I forget which.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 14:24:57, 17/06/19
Where on Earth did you see the gentian? And what sort is it, spring gentian?
At an altitude of 2000m 1 km NNE from the summit of the Kaiserburg. I have no idea what type.  If you want to see them wild in the UK there is a patch by the stream just above Cronkley Farm by the Pennine Way growing on a bank just north of beck after the bridge. Apparently, nearby on the south bank there is some sort of bush that is only found there and on the Burren in Ireland and one one island in the Atlantic, I forget which.
Title: Flora - A present from the Alps
Post by: ninthace on 16:17:55, 23/06/19
Here are a few pretties from Austria - from alpine meadow and a bit higher up. If anyone wants to name them feel free.


Meadow
(http://i68.tinypic.com/fncjkl.jpg)



Near the summit
(http://i66.tinypic.com/300rv4l.jpg)


Near the summit
(http://i68.tinypic.com/161xl3n.jpg)


Close up
(http://i64.tinypic.com/2aa12yb.jpg)


Rather than make a huge post - I will pop some more on tomorrow
Title: Re: Flora - more Alpines
Post by: ninthace on 10:15:42, 24/06/19
Continuing my post.  Again, if anyone can name them, feel free.
More meadow flowers
(http://i66.tinypic.com/1zx8nk7.jpg)

 
A host of Alpine Gentian on the Kaiserburg
(http://i66.tinypic.com/2la7uqa.jpg)

 
Hedgerow flower of some sort
(http://i65.tinypic.com/2w6s9s1.jpg)

 
Meadow flower
(http://i63.tinypic.com/2nsw7lk.jpg)

 
Hidden by the side of the path, fairly high up
(http://i65.tinypic.com/6o0kck.jpg)

Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:01:44, 24/06/19
Last one Bugle? Great pics  O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 13:54:56, 24/06/19
Some great wild flower shots there, Ninthace.
Looking for a bit of help myself;
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48119902028_1b3dc46392_z.jpg) (http://)Wennault flower (https://flic.kr/p/2gjc5pf) by Barewirewalker (https://www.flickr.com/photos/barewirewalker/), on Flickr

Nearest I have come up with is Nottingham Catchfly or Common Cow-wheat, it is not one I was familiar with in my childhood, so I don't know a country name for it.

It now gives a yellow carpet to the floor of a wood almost as captivating as bluebells. Will be posting a few of the Dolfor topic. (http://www.walkingforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=38623.msg549967;topicseen#msg549967)

Just for your 'Delectation';
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48119969892_7ca25d7bb1_z.jpg) (http://)P1050383 (https://flic.kr/p/2gjcqzj) by Barewirewalker (https://www.flickr.com/photos/barewirewalker/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 16:16:16, 24/06/19
Some great wild flower shots there, Ninthace.
Looking for a bit of help myself;
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48119902028_1b3dc46392_z.jpg) (http://)Wennault flower (https://flic.kr/p/2gjc5pf) by Barewirewalker (https://www.flickr.com/photos/barewirewalker/), on Flickr

Nearest I have come up with is Nottingham Catchfly or Common Cow-wheat, it is not one I was familiar with in my childhood, so I don't know a country name for it.

It now gives a yellow carpet to the floor of a wood almost as captivating as bluebells. Will be posting a few of the Dolfor topic. (http://www.walkingforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=38623.msg549967;topicseen#msg549967)

383 (https://flic.kr/p/2gjcqzj) by Barewirewalker (https://www.flickr.com/photos/barewirewalker/), on Flickr



Not Nottingham Catchfly -  I know it as Cow-wheat - very pretty and delicate.




Last one Bugle? Great pics  O0


Milkwort I think
Hidden by the side of the path, fairly high up
(http://i65.tinypic.com/6o0kck.jpg)



Gorgeous gentians Ninthace





Title: Re: Flora - more Alpines
Post by: sunnydale on 20:13:20, 24/06/19

(http://i66.tinypic.com/1zx8nk7.jpg)

Meadow flower
(http://i63.tinypic.com/2nsw7lk.jpg)





The star shaped lilac flowers look like a variety of Campanula, I think.
And I'm fairly sure that the tall pinkish flowers above are Bistort.
Title: Re: Flora - A present from the Alps
Post by: sunnydale on 20:35:02, 24/06/19

Near the summit
(http://i68.tinypic.com/161xl3n.jpg)


Close up
(http://i64.tinypic.com/2aa12yb.jpg)



I think these are Spring Gentain...but not 100%
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 21:49:25, 24/06/19
Thanks everyone for the identifications.  More pictures tomorrow for you to identify.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 05:47:07, 25/06/19
Thanks Jac for that identification, this is the whole picture, well not quite it was behind as well, with few 100yards around the bend.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48124530632_8eed32012d_z.jpg) (http://)P1050443 (https://flic.kr/p/2gjANjL) by Barewirewalker (https://www.flickr.com/photos/barewirewalker/), on Flickr
Cow Wheat in abundance!
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 20:12:39, 25/06/19
Some more flowers from the Alps.  Again if anyone knows what they are feel free:


High up, pathside. Like a cowslip but much smaller

(http://i65.tinypic.com/xm652t.jpg)
Next to the last one
(http://i68.tinypic.com/10z2wjd.jpg)
Also high up
(http://i66.tinypic.com/2ilfn8g.jpg)
High woodland
(http://i67.tinypic.com/2ynkmyr.jpg)
Pathside, still high
(http://i65.tinypic.com/20jgyhi.jpg)

 

 

 
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 20:31:18, 25/06/19
Photo 1 is Kidney Vetch
Photo 3 looks like Birds-foot Trefoil
Photo 4 looks like a variety of Scabious
Photo 5 is Thymus vulgaris (common thyme)

Oh...the orange dandelion-ish looking meadow flower you posted on the 23rd is probably Crepis aurea - Golden Hawk's-beard.

Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong! :D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 20:57:52, 25/06/19
Bee Orchid I photographed on Sunday in the Longstone Edge area 8) ....


(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/64907577_2571844322834306_8899108431277850624_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_oc=AQkqo6RrqTlvkH1aefvkbuDrFqPP6RD-HHgSCJnniboIHjNNnD2caTIM6mNJpICIPSk&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr3-1.xx&oh=3f205262cb9d7da89a6923eb42d04088&oe=5D7CA508)




Marsh Orchids.....


(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/64814993_2571848799500525_6509892354432827392_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&_nc_oc=AQlv7K6At4wpuoOwi2lT39kOK0geAOg9zzpTXjya8b9z69vly_TDZoSVhBf-fgehW4c&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr3-1.xx&oh=fdea17021544a6614b4c7b48a8ac5a0f&oe=5DC3F2F5)


(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/64683331_2571848832833855_622449599956647936_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_oc=AQnMX58aN_Gfd7egwR8VMXCNysfNvwcH_4sDyIJ1fAWQKcerPu1glBdtNeLPaoWvbrQ&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr3-1.xx&oh=9cb2982975e07b2d6b4434aebf50079d&oe=5D8CD6CA)


And one of the fields of wild red poppies that everyone's been going crazy about lately!


(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/65387603_2571850236167048_4655626815220482048_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_oc=AQlVIota-1Jp_ewF6jGAasbEeLygPv21O_I0FJ0Osw0TFNl0EJFkFl9oZBoD3mCZ_OQ&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr3-1.xx&oh=124e361b407b603b3e23f4b05e4edeea&oe=5D80A50E)


Safer to photograph them from a few miles away! :D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 21:02:43, 25/06/19
Photo 1 is Kidney Vetch
Photo 3 looks like Birds-foot Trefoil
Photo 4 looks like a variety of Scabious
Photo 5 is Thymus vulgaris (common thyme)

Oh...the orange dandelion-ish looking meadow flower you posted on the 23rd is probably Crepis aurea - Golden Hawk's-beard.

Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong! :D
Cor you're good.  Thanks.  That thyme looks nothing like the stuff in my garden but I was wondering today when I posted it.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 10:31:28, 26/06/19
Cor you're good.  Thanks.  That thyme looks nothing like the stuff in my garden but I was wondering today when I posted it.
We do have some very helpful and knowledgeable members on this forum, following this topic is very interesting.

Talking about Orchids, I opened up some photos taken in Galloway, June 7 2015, yesterday to offer some help on another topic, I found a very out of focus picture of a white orchid, taken on heather moorland at around 1500ft.

Quality of picture is very poor as it was taken, quickly because we needed to make time on the route and I was tired because the Merrick had taken it's toll on my stamina. Looking through the photos I realise I still have to make a slide show on this walk and it would be good to incorporate a picture of the moment. The Greater Butterfly Orchid does seem to fit the bill, though the blurry nature of the photo could suggest the flower head being denser.The find was somewhere along the east flank of the Rig of Enoch, so would this location allow for the later flowering. My artistic side is being tempted with the ideas of slide transitions between white orchids and the Grey Man of Merrick.   :o or  :D or even  :2funny: no perhaps  :crazy2:
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 16:42:46, 26/06/19
Gentians are just stunning, ninthace.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 17:33:38, 26/06/19
I think I got lucky with my timing.  You haven’t seen blue until you have seen gentians in bright sun.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 19:53:30, 26/06/19
Some more to identify:
Hedgerow
(http://i64.tinypic.com/2gt25h4.jpg)
Meadow
(http://i65.tinypic.com/344t8b6.jpg)
Meadow
(http://i64.tinypic.com/rl03mo.jpg)
Forest
(http://i68.tinypic.com/9s75a8.jpg)
Hedgerow
(http://i67.tinypic.com/14u81vo.jpg)
Hedgerow
(http://i66.tinypic.com/357kl7b.jpg)
And finally, my favourite - an Alpine Strawberry. Delicious snacking.
(http://i63.tinypic.com/2yvvuhh.jpg)
Tha - tha - that's all folks!

 

 

 

 
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 08:29:54, 27/06/19
I think your winding us up ninthace and know very well what these are! :D


1. Not sure, possibly a cornflower on it's way to full bloom?
2. Ragged Robin
3. Looks like a Bellflower
4. Can't remember the name!lol
5. Forget-me-not
6. Cranesbill or Geranium variety?
7. Wild strawberry?


Got to go now, leading a walk today! 8)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 09:29:52, 27/06/19
Thanks Sunnyvale. I am honestly not good on flowers. Things that fly, birds and planes yes, common trees yes, but somehow flowers, no.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:42:33, 27/06/19
Is no.4 japanese knotweed flowers?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 11:50:58, 27/06/19
Is no.4 japanese knotweed flowers?
  I wouldn't have thought so but I am no expert.  It was an isolated bloom by the side of a forest track at about 1400m altitude some distance from the nearest habitation.  Does look a bit like it though said he, having googled it.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dovegirl on 12:01:19, 27/06/19
Could the first one be round-headed rampion? 
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 12:28:06, 27/06/19
Could the first one be round-headed rampion?

Yes! It's taken me hours to locate it in my pics of walking the RLS trail only to find I never titled the photo so had to google it all over again - then you beat me to it >:( ;D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 15:08:46, 27/06/19
  I wouldn't have thought so but I am no expert.  It was an isolated bloom by the side of a forest track at about 1400m altitude some distance from the nearest habitation.  Does look a bit like it though said he, having googled it.
A flowering sedge?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:13:47, 01/07/19
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142890672@N04/48167789581/in/album-72157709353843781/ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/142890672@N04/48167789581/in/album-72157709353843781/)
flowers and wildlife
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 10:58:40, 01/07/19
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142890672@N04/48167789581/in/album-72157709353843781/ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/142890672@N04/48167789581/in/album-72157709353843781/)
flowers and wildlife

Wow - some really beautiful phots in there, Pleb.
Love the marbled white on knapweed, all the lovely orchids and the poppies.
Were they all taken on the same walk and where? - just looked through again and see it is Brockdale
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 12:02:03, 01/07/19
First one was elsewhere, but I lumped it in with the brockadale ones.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 15:53:08, 01/07/19
Lovely pics pleb O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Pitboot on 13:56:20, 05/07/19

https://ibb.co/6ZTB7R9
https://ibb.co/WHKNbNh
https://ibb.co/wLzG7Rs

 
Three pics of flora near to Rydal caves, found on the mine spoil heap. Sorry about the poor quality, phone pics.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 16:39:52, 05/07/19
Stonecrop and Herb Robert. Amazing how plants colonise spoil heaps.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 19:18:02, 25/07/19
Any help with this one would be appreciated. From our recent Scotland trip, on an Argyll peninsular, fairly remote, on the sheltered not seaward side of a hill, in boggy pasture.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48374348961_dd5ba37bf8_c.jpg) (http://)P1060126 (https://flic.kr/p/2gGFbBk) by Barewirewalker (https://www.flickr.com/photos/barewirewalker/), on Flickr
I think I have come across it before but can't remember where from.  :tickedoff: frustration!
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 20:38:07, 25/07/19

Looks like Marsh Cinquefoil.


Came across it here in Orkney, Mull Head nature reserve, growing on the banks of and in a very small burn.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 21:33:46, 25/07/19
Thanks Richard I'll check it out.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 08:25:39, 26/07/19
So simple to follow up on the internet, when some kind person provides the correct name;
Quote
Marsh Cinquefoil likes wet, boggy places (https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/wildflowers/marsh-cinquefoil), fens and peaty meadows. When it is in flower, between May and July, it is a good source of food for nectar-loving insects, such as bees and hoverflies. Marsh Cinquefoil is one of a number of cinquefoils, but is unique in the UK as the only one with deep magenta flowers - the rest have yellow flowers. It is a member of the rose family.
Quote
Marsh cinquefoil's (https://www.plantlife.org.uk/uk/discover-wild-plants-nature/plant-fungi-species/marsh-cinquefoil) intense magenta hue brightens up the wet places in which it likes to grow.

Its flowers are shaped unlike many others in the UK, appearing like two five-pointed stars, one smaller and a deeper purple colour set above another, larger and paler. The flowers can grow up to 2.5 cm in size on a plant up to 45 cm tall. Its leaves are toothed with a blueish-green tinge on their underside.

As my photo was taken in the evening, I think the flower was closing up for the night, some far more attractive pictures here. (https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=marsh+cinquefoil&id=654DD4BFEBC5F4F727A7835E6A6292674C66E683&FORM=IQFRBAhttp://)
Two separate articles claim it is related to the strawberry and a member of the rose family, Oh What a convoluted web are family connections  ;D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: MarkT on 19:48:36, 05/08/19

A small crop of Sunflowers at the end of a farmers field which the Bees loved


(http://oi68.tinypic.com/o012d2.jpg)


(https://i.postimg.cc/hjb8RBFM/IMG-20190803-105423.jpg)

Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 07:23:51, 06/08/19
Lovely Mark O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 18:14:53, 07/08/19
An Orchid with a sea view;
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48481601066_dc387f4ea6_c.jpg) (http://)P1060595 (https://flic.kr/p/2gS9SVy) by Barewirewalker (https://www.flickr.com/photos/barewirewalker/), on Flickr
Never found one before on sand dunes.

It is a slightly different shape to the Common Meadow Orchid I am used to finding.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 10:51:51, 08/08/19
I think I have the answer to my own question.
Quote
Pyramidal Orchid - Anacamptis pyramidalis; The name 'pyramidal' comes from the conical shape of the young infloresence of this plant. Once the flower is fully developed it becomes more cylindrical or egg-shaped, which can sometimes cause confusion.
The coastal dune slacks are very good places for seeing these orchids in Britain and Ireland.
Useful webpage here. (https://www.first-nature.com/flowers/anacamptis-pyramidalis.php)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 14:06:13, 08/08/19
I think I have the answer to my own question.

I'll second that, bww. I've only just seen your photo properly on my desktop pc; on my little laptop a wee bit of the flower was visible on the edge of the screen.
It's just like one I saw on a walk last week, anything but pyramidal! 
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 11:31:14, 09/08/19
Fernman, Thanks for that confirmation  O0 .
Title: Something for Fernman to enjoy.
Post by: ninthace on 06:05:42, 02/11/19
Took these today for Fernman to enjoy.
(https://i.postimg.cc/bJdZQgq8/20191102-113900.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

A bit bigger than the average UK fern
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 09:06:56, 02/11/19
Thank you. And for tree ferns those are exceptionally tall ones!
They are where, please?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 09:19:43, 02/11/19
Thank you. And for tree ferns those are exceptionally tall ones!
They are where, please?
On the northern slopes of Mount Taranaki. I think they are called Rough Tree Ferns.  There were some much bigger ones but they were not easy to photograph. For a picture of Taranaki see last post in http://www.walkingforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=38878.0 (http://www.walkingforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=38878.0)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 09:42:25, 02/11/19
It's been a good year in Kent for Early Purple Orchids.

One of the best places to see them was along the clifftops at Dover, which is where I spotted this rare white one...

(http://www.cruisingmates.co.uk/coppermine/albums/userpics/10054/Dover_to_Kingsdown_walk_3.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 10:01:45, 02/11/19
@ Ninthace:
Hmm..... that might be just a local name for it, because it comes up as a species of Oz and not NZ. (I'm not very well acquainted with tree ferns.) That's the trouble with common names, different regions have different names for the same plant and the same names for different plants. Which is where Carl Linnaeus came to the rescue in the eighteenth century by devising a binomial system of Latin names which can be recognised anywhere in the world whatever the native language.

@Whitstable Dave:
E. Sussex and S. Kent cliffs are good places for orchids, because the tiny little seeds can be carried from the continent on favourable winds, to land on our shores. Their sex lives are disgusting, they interbreed freely and produce all manner of genetic oddities, such as your white one.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 12:25:14, 02/11/19
Their sex lives are disgusting, they interbreed freely and produce all manner of genetic oddities, such as your white one.

so white is a genetic oddity!  Quick alert the race police (I actually typed racist police but thought that possibly equated to a double negative and therefore a positive) - LOL



(please - take this post as being non-serious)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 23:13:36, 02/11/19
A study in epiphytes.
(https://i.postimg.cc/NM9QgHFb/20191103-104055.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 23:17:30, 02/11/19
Guaranteed native tree fern this time, known as a Punga or Ponga I think.
(https://i.postimg.cc/ncsB6RnQ/20191103-114316.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 08:55:38, 03/11/19
Guaranteed native tree fern this time, known as a Punga or Ponga I think.

Yes, that one comes up as an endemic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsophila_dealbata (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsophila_dealbata)

Most botanists / pteridologists / growers will know it as Cyathea dealbata rather than Alsophila dealbata because those unmistakable Linnaean names of which I was so full of praise earlier have recently been turned on their heads by major revisions in the taxonomy, leaving everyone confused and largely sticking with the old names  :-\
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 11:21:54, 03/11/19
One of the pleasures of walking for me is spotting wildflowers that I've not seen before and looking them up when I get home.

I eventually managed to identify this one with a 3ft long flower spike that I saw near Dolgellau, but it was a real challenge...

(http://www.cruisingmates.co.uk/coppermine/albums/userpics/10054/Mystery_wildflower.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Mel on 14:42:30, 03/11/19
Giz a clue then.  Don't keep us in suspenders  :D   


... worrizit?



Title: Re: Flora
Post by: jimbob on 18:48:56, 03/11/19
Giz a clue then.  Don't keep us in suspenders  :D   


... worrizit?
Umbilicus Rupestris or Navelwort
Seemingly it is edible???????

Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Mel on 19:02:59, 03/11/19
Seriously?!  :o   So, if I google that, it won't bring up anything dodgy will it?  :D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: jimbob on 19:22:55, 03/11/19
Seriously?!  :o   So, if I google that, it won't bring up anything dodgy will it?  :D
Yep. My new phone can hone on on photos and tells you the names of plants. I then wikid that name and was quite surprised to read about it.
If I see something I like the photo editor can also identify say, a pair of boots and then Google the prices in my locality. Tomorrow if its raining I am sending my new phone to do my daily 4 mile health walk, that will teach it a lesson. As I get older I am hoping that if I point my phone at someone it will give me their name and where I should know them from.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Mel on 19:30:31, 03/11/19
..Tomorrow if its raining I am sending my new phone to do my daily 4 mile health walk, that will teach it a lesson. ...


 ;D   whilst you sit at home drinking brandy I presume?



Title: Re: Flora
Post by: jimbob on 19:35:02, 03/11/19

 ;D   whilst you sit at home drinking brandy I presume?
Good idea, thanks.  ;D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 19:49:11, 03/11/19
After reading JimBob's post about how his too-clever-by-half phone can tell the names of plants from photos, I copied the photo of the navelwort and dropped it onto this web page, https://www.imageidentify.com/ (https://www.imageidentify.com/)

The answer came up as 'tree'.

Well, there is a tree trunk in the photo, so it was right in a way, but it was not the result I had hoped for.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Mel on 19:57:55, 03/11/19
Maybe try the plant on the left of the pic?


Goes to show just how clever jimbob's phone is  :D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: jimbob on 19:58:11, 03/11/19
After reading JimBob's post about how his too-clever-by-half phone can tell the names of plants from photos, I copied the photo of the navelwort and dropped it onto this web page, https://www.imageidentify.com/ (https://www.imageidentify.com/)

The answer came up as 'tree'.

Well, there is a tree trunk in the photo, so it was right in a way, but it was not the result I had hoped for.
I found the photo editor identification thingy by accident. It is great. The RHS identifier book I have shows Navelwort to be edible as does Wikipedia , but I wouldn't fancy trying it.
Did you want the tree species as well? ??? ?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 19:59:11, 03/11/19
I just let somebody else ID it, much easier  ;D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: jimbob on 20:09:21, 03/11/19
Seemingly 60% chance that it is an Oak tree. It could not specify the type of moss? ??? ??? ??? ?
Well, that's a let down.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 22:20:16, 03/11/19
Blimey, a lot has been written since I posted the photo.  :)

 O0 Navelwort it is, and the name supposedly comes from the leaf which appears to have a navel in the centre.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: jimbob on 22:52:16, 03/11/19
Blimey, a lot has been written since I posted the photo.  :)

 O0 Navelwort it is, and the name supposedly comes from the leaf which appears to have a navel in the centre.
OK so what species of moss is it????

Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 23:28:15, 03/11/19
Also known as Wall Pennywort.
that identifier app sounds really useful
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: jimbob on 00:03:39, 04/11/19
Also known as Wall Pennywort.
that identifier app sounds really useful
. It is not an app as such it is a photo editor, it is one of the things already installed on the phone. (Huawei). I accidently found that it identifies things in my photos. Usually I take lots of photos of my right knee or the open sky for some reason.

There is another setting which when you point the camera at something say a flowerpot or a scone it tells you what they are and where they can be bought close to where you are.

My son is certain that there is someone in China who is actually interested in all this so that they can use all this info for marketing.  I will deliberately take loads of photos of pot noodles, that should teach them a lesson.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 10:06:31, 04/11/19
. It is not an app as such it is a photo editor, it is one of the things already installed on the phone. (Huawei). I accidently found that it identifies things in my photos. Usually I take lots of photos of my right knee or the open sky for some reason.

There is another setting which when you point the camera at something say a flowerpot or a scone it tells you what they are and where they can be bought close to where you are.

My son is certain that there is someone in China who is actually interested in all this so that they can use all this info for marketing.  I will deliberately take loads of photos of pot noodles, that should teach them a lesson.

Blig blother is watching?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: vghikers on 10:42:59, 04/11/19
Quote
I will deliberately take loads of photos of pot noodles, that should teach them a lesson.

And Winnie the Pooh too  :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Mel on 21:54:28, 04/11/19
My son is certain that there is someone in China who is actually interested in all this so that they can use all this info for marketing.  I will deliberately take loads of photos of pot noodles, that should teach them a lesson.


Your son's probably not wrong.  You'll start seeing loads of "personalised ads" for pot noodles  :D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 12:55:47, 22/02/20
Not a great photo I know, but I spotted my first flowering Lesser Celandine of the year during this morning's walk in the woods...  :)

(http://www.cruisingmates.co.uk/coppermine/albums/userpics/10054/Lesser_Celandine%7E0.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 14:51:53, 24/02/20
Lovely to see a bit of colour at last O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: SteamyTea on 16:43:22, 25/02/20
Saw this today,makes a change from daffs.
https://ibb.co/JcH1HMF
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 12:17:12, 26/02/20
Blimey, that’s early!! :o
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: SteamyTea on 12:33:06, 26/02/20
Blimey, that’s early!! :o
not for down here. The knotweed will be starting soon.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 14:17:17, 27/02/20
Saw this today,makes a change from daffs.
https://ibb.co/JcH1HMF (https://ibb.co/JcH1HMF)
  Saw this today - is it the same thing?
(https://i.postimg.cc/nzQV5tmJ/20200227-113027.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
The Aubretia was also in flower alongside the primroses, daffs, snowdrops and crocuses.  I also say some heather out in a cottage garden.


Title: Spring Flower
Post by: ninthace on 12:07:12, 02/04/20
A lot of these flowers are starting to appear on the banks under hedgerows.  Can anyone identify them please?


(https://i.postimg.cc/63Bb4m3n/20200402-110659-1504.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

 
(https://i.postimg.cc/C5Pt7j1v/20200402-110718-1503.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 12:28:25, 02/04/20
Looks like Stitchwort to me. Common but under appreciated in my opinion. Called after needle and thread work on a country girls dress as the flower can be so easily represented by simple stitching.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 12:30:04, 02/04/20
+1 Greater Stitchwort I think

Never thought of the reason for the name before :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 12:37:16, 02/04/20
Thanks.  They have just started to pop out in profusion.  All this daily lane walking has given me a greater appreciation of the hedgerow flower season.  Before my knee problem and all wet weather, we used to drive past all that, straight for the moors or the coast.  The bad weather and the lock down has given me a greater appreciation of what we have on the doorstep.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 12:48:15, 02/04/20
Thanks.  They have just started to pop out in profusion.  All this daily lane walking has given me a greater appreciation of the hedgerow flower season.  Before my knee problem and all wet weather, we used to drive past all that, straight for the moors or the coast.  The bad weather and the lock down has given me a greater appreciation of what we have on the doorstep.

Me too. I would have driven to Dunsford Woods on the R Teign to see dippers. Yesterday I saw one half a mile from home on the Alphinbrook.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 12:55:46, 02/04/20
Me too. I would have driven to Dunsford Woods on the R Teign to see dippers. Yesterday I saw one half a mile from home on the Alphinbrook.
Funny you should say that, the week before last I went for a walk on the Exe Valley Way from Tiverton while my car was being serviced and saw a brace of dippers at Iron Bridge.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 16:56:55, 02/04/20
I have Stitchwort in my garden & I’m  so looking forward to it flowering! 8)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 13:27:11, 06/04/20
I saw lots of flowering garlic mustard on my walk this morning.

This is one of my favourite spring wildflowers because I like to break up the leaves and sniff the garlic as I walk along.  :)

(http://www.cruisingmates.co.uk/coppermine/albums/userpics/10054/Garlic_Mustard_2020.jpg)

I know they're edible, but I've not chanced nibbling them yet.  :-\
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 18:29:51, 06/04/20
I can tesify that garlic mustard is quite edible. It used to grow plentifully in my garden and we used to add it to salads.
But don't take too much, for the orange tip butterfly, which we should be seeing in a week or two if this warm weather keeps up, lays its eggs on the underside of the leaves for the larvae to feed on.
I am saying that for the benefit of the future of the butterlies, not yours.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 21:07:08, 06/04/20
I think that’s the plant that’s also known as Jack-by-the hedge  O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 10:29:32, 07/04/20
Orange tip butterflies already here (Devon) spent some time watching and photographing two males (the ones with the orange tips) sparring in the sunshine.

A family out walking came past and, at the risk of sounding too nerdy, I pointed out the butterflies - from their delighted reaction I reckon quite a number of people, especially children, will be enjoying and building up their personal knowledge of nature this spring


(Sadly, still can't find a way to post pics. I've tried everything suggested :( )
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 10:30:23, 07/04/20
I think that’s the plant that’s also known as Jack-by-the hedge  O0

that's me! and yes, the young leaves are delicious - slightly peppery
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 11:38:53, 07/04/20
A family out walking came past and, at the risk of sounding too nerdy, I pointed out the butterflies - from their delighted reaction I reckon quite a number of people, especially children, will be enjoying and building up their personal knowledge of nature this spring

My wife and I did an 8 day tour of Iceland, when we were the only two Brits on a coachload of Americans. Part of the pleasure of the trip for me personally was seeing the country's ferns.
At one stop an American lady came across to see what I was examining, which was a diminutive arctic-alpine species that is extremely rare in the UK, just about hanging on at a handful of sites in Scotland, NW England and Snowdonia, and yet it is fairly common in fissures in Iceland's glaciated rocks.
The woman listened attentively as I detailed the fern's ecology to her. Then at another stop later in the day I had a feeling of pride when I accidentally overheard her repeating everything I had said to a group of her fellow countrymen.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 18:46:29, 07/04/20
My wife and I did an 8 day tour of Iceland, when we were the only two Brits on a coachload of Americans. Part of the pleasure of the trip for me personally was seeing the country's ferns.
At one stop an American lady came across to see what I was examining, which was a diminutive arctic-alpine species that is extremely rare in the UK, just about hanging on at a handful of sites in Scotland, NW England and Snowdonia, and yet it is fairly common in fissures in Iceland's glaciated rocks.
The woman listened attentively as I detailed the fern's ecology to her. Then at another stop later in the day I had a feeling of pride when I accidentally overheard her repeating everything I had said to a group of her fellow countrymen.

Did she credit you?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:53:16, 12/04/20
(https://i.postimg.cc/y606ktLD/005.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
(https://i.postimg.cc/Hnrh8qgV/006.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
wood anemone and cowslip.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: April on 12:17:02, 12/04/20
Very nice pleb  :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: SteamyTea on 16:48:26, 12/04/20
My cherry is working
(https://i.postimg.cc/zX7JqFn4/Blossum.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 17:21:37, 12/04/20
My cherry is working
How did you get it to go?  Was it a flat battery?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 17:55:32, 12/04/20
How did you get it to go?  Was it a flat battery?
Theres been an explosion at the Nissan plant.
Its raining datsun cogs.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 09:51:19, 13/04/20
My cherry is working

That's a risky caption
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: sunnydale on 12:23:58, 13/04/20
That's a risky caption


Hmm, I rather think he knew that! :D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 12:35:44, 14/04/20
Orange tip butterflies already here (Devon) spent some time watching and photographing two males (the ones with the orange tips) sparring in the sunshine.

A family out walking came past and, at the risk of sounding too nerdy, I pointed out the butterflies - from their delighted reaction I reckon quite a number of people, especially children, will be enjoying and building up their personal knowledge of nature this spring


(Sadly, still can't find a way to post pics. I've tried everything suggested :( )
I have been watching Orange tips passing through my garden for the last week, surprise today one came by which seems a lot smaller than usual, can't find a reference to a lesser version and the Small Orangtip is not apparently a British species.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 13:18:23, 14/04/20
Two more hedgerow pretties from my walk this morning
I think this is Red Campion
(https://i.postimg.cc/5NwXzL0G/20200414-110604.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

 
And I presume this is another Spanish Bluebell
(https://i.postimg.cc/FssKYqMf/20200414-111238.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 16:15:48, 14/04/20
If the stalk is triangular I think the white flower is what I know as three cornered leek. Keble Martin lists Allium Triquetrum and calls it triangular stemmed garlic. Sounds like the same thing to me

Sorry - you're right it's a white bluebell - I've been sitting in the sun too long without wine
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: SteamyTea on 20:56:02, 20/04/20
On my way to the woods today I spotted all these.


(https://qpwqww.db.files.1drv.com/y4mvtnCEcFbqcPKfyYnuHaq1aN8fn9qHO_K3S324xN3bvraAqPYjE5oHgHueQ2hDa0-SkS6R0jZXHjTx8E8p05IGSRN9jGfztLlmQ1qbR6ZVUDzCEmL0JAyfuflUErE-szFYBP4V_1gyB6pYpPD8W9dEwT9l_e61-5_jkegK4Rnr7hhh3rI_PeyNuw1uJF3WYgy__mDnEr7nNMPplh0pvNXWw?width=495&height=660&cropmode=none)


(https://dqnwcq.db.files.1drv.com/y4mL5YhFGHWsj7gx7xK2aKdcZ1Y_Un-VFrcM1FAM43Q4u4WZTfpnM6vqcufeHxCKMdBYN2OKRQvKwzCMp2Le5Gu3dgxIux7aZV0XSFLEcCajBqw5NDC8Ii9lh5U2sEuVID1cOJil7aneeT6SjV0kEjerje55B-9x6lwlMAkkJ6fnxN6xLF2x38_gX7zVx-HQgqNqshAjd6g_Xp6Zg_kCwnTqw?width=495&height=660&cropmode=none)


(https://zad1aq.db.files.1drv.com/y4m8Y198wjyKaS8Nr5jMi5kyNqQhPPKS6VubXuKa2Pgedf0nYJss0lmmUUTwC0qy3DJil0JzxWuOPSVPgLr1TdT6rAZb13w7YnNoTI3DOHZQiNbghO4DZaV03XBN4PctjzNt3NWvPs_911fov9hQYG72jkl6LFx48pm6LisjCOBl7sVvqjV9wQR4tk9ktHAUDovV0gcz51GJrUWkwZ6GbqYog?width=660&height=495&cropmode=none)


(https://zabtrg.db.files.1drv.com/y4mZ3HEVf9BbZ54W4P6J6ZEw33kZj29vA--8CrfE-XoCJoZ3tKYLGg5kvgWtJXr4rwMnEzeAkh5g3lo0t4meYNQL-V7tp3Ec480NoVx0QQzPmAs1iAagFV4c7oTlad5XSlwuCGNoJhIoU_U2UJAusHl3xfxH00hr7j5ItBoyIPZBSRlexLyMoSo4_m25x_Yb3RON-FKyh-F3FQHJtkqOrLLRw?width=495&height=660&cropmode=none)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Rigel on 01:36:25, 21/04/20
A late night bimble.

(https://i.ibb.co/Bf3VvGn/20200419-205332.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 08:02:46, 21/04/20
Now that does look like (Allium Triquetrum) Three cornered leek/Triangular stemmed garlic.
Edible and tasty
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Rigel on 15:24:00, 21/04/20
Now that does look like (Allium Triquetrum) Three cornered leek/Triangular stemmed garlic.
Edible and tasty


Hi, thanks for identification. It's abundant on one of my regular localised walks.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 16:27:07, 21/04/20
I came across this beauty today.  A single specimen growing in a verge by a hedge.  It had quite a long stalk.  It was a little more pinky purple than postimage makes it
(https://i.postimg.cc/nVX8FXFJ/20200421-144405.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 16:32:41, 21/04/20
Lady's Smock or Cuckoo flower I think
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 16:36:42, 21/04/20
Lady's Smock or Cuckoo flower I think
Every day is a school day.  Thanks Jac
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 16:49:53, 21/04/20
Lady's Smock or Cuckoo flower I think


 O0 Agree


In 2018 I came across a field abslutely full of it in Orkney. Stunning.
Title: Flora around my garden
Post by: Yorci on 10:03:31, 22/04/20
Given the hills are going have to wait a while, I've taken to my garden, not much in bloom around my garden at the moment, though the bedding plants are in, hopefully more than dandilions will brighten the place up.

One of many dandilions at the moment
(https://i.postimg.cc/sfTZWQ1K/Dandelion-001.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
(https://i.postimg.cc/2SRvjp1f/Dandelion-003.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

A couple of Polyanthus-Primula, not sure of their species, I got no where fast on the internet.
(https://i.postimg.cc/8zNYF0Yq/Polyanthus-Primula-001.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
(https://i.postimg.cc/kXB40TwP/Polyanthus-Primula-002.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
(https://i.postimg.cc/rsp1X5ZZ/Polyanthus-Primula-004.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/4dRGS5yZ/Polyanthus-Primula-005.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/mDpwrd9W/Polyanthus-Primula-006.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/pLDMnjk6/Polyanthus-Primula-008.jpg)

A lupin showing a bit of promise
(https://i.postimg.cc/cJnhJ7mv/Lupin-002.jpg)

Holly coming out
(https://i.postimg.cc/kXHhX5mh/Holly-002.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/vZq8mfBw/Holly-003.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/L8zGsZV6/Holly-004.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/6QFHLWc1/Holly-005.jpg)

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Title: Re: Flora
Post by: MarkT on 20:30:58, 02/05/20
This purple flower caught my attention today, especially as the daffodil was still standing proud. Can anyone identify it? It looked like a kind of purple poppy.


(https://i.postimg.cc/QNSRy0gd/IMG-20200502-115106.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: andybr on 22:16:46, 02/05/20
Looks like an Opium Poppy. They are quite common in the UK but it is not hot enough for them to produce resin.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 13:42:13, 03/05/20
I think it's a tulip

I really like the close up details, Yorci.
I've been keeping a photo record of the flowers I see when walking as I first spot them. Getting difficult to identify them now with all the umbellifers/cow parsley lookalikes.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 14:07:04, 03/05/20
I think it's a tulip
Agreed - my first thought was opium poppy, but the pistil looks more tulip than poppy. Also, the strap like leaves below the plant.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 14:08:49, 03/05/20
Great close ups, yorci. I still haven't worked out how to use the macro on the camera that I inherited a few years ago.  ::)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 12:53:03, 02/06/20
I took my car to the garage in Canterbury this morning and that gave me a reason to walk back home through the woods for the first time in months.

I was hoping to spot some orchids along the way and I wasn't disappointed.  :)

(http://www.cruisingmates.co.uk/coppermine/albums/userpics/10054/Orchids_2_June_20.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 14:47:16, 08/06/20
This one's a real puzzle.

I saw this pair of mushrooms on my walk this morning:

(http://www.cruisingmates.co.uk/coppermine/albums/userpics/10054/Magpie_Ink_Cap_1.jpg)

Better angle, but slightly blurred:

(http://www.cruisingmates.co.uk/coppermine/albums/userpics/10054/Magpie_Ink_Cap_2.jpg)

I've looked them up and I'm almost certain they're called Magpie Ink Caps. The habitat is a match (beech woodland and chalky soil), but they're supposed to appear from Sept to Dec. I couldn't see any others nearby. Apparently they're poisonous.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: MarkT on 20:38:15, 10/06/20
Walking along a very overgrown path and spotted some wild roses amongst the brambles. I think this is known as a Dog Rose but it was the Thick Legged Flower Beetle that got my attention. I had no idea what the insect was until I saw one on Springwatch  :)


(https://i.postimg.cc/HLgPYnGy/IMG-20200530-120934.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 11:27:24, 11/06/20
Walking along a very overgrown path and spotted some wild roses amongst the brambles. I think this is known as a Dog Rose but it was the Thick Legged Flower Beetle that got my attention. I had no idea what the insect was until I saw one on Springwatch  :)


Good old Springwatch O0 - my feeling is that it's better than ever this year without quite so much banter.
Incidentally the female Thick Legged beetle doesn't have thick legs :P
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Bigfoot_Mike on 18:17:56, 11/06/20
Slightly off topic, but I think the socially distanced version of Springwatch has been much better than the previous versions.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 13:33:26, 15/06/20
Slightly off topic, but I think the socially distanced version of Springwatch has been much better than the previous versions.
Agreed.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 14:41:26, 24/06/20
One of my favourites - Rosebay willowherb in nearby Clowes Wood this morning:

(http://www.cruisingmates.co.uk/coppermine/albums/userpics/10054/Rosebay_willowherb.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: GnP on 07:43:43, 25/06/20

I came across a mass of Foxglove enclosed in a field on my walk in Shropshire yesterday .

(https://i.postimg.cc/wBXkJhyy/Field-of-Foxglove-flowers.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 23:25:05, 25/06/20
Wow - fabulous
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 17:28:10, 15/08/20
(https://i.postimg.cc/XY79Mq3L/thumbnail-29.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
(https://i.postimg.cc/J4TGkqV3/thumbnail-31.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)how to get mentally stronger (https://ralphrobertspersonaltrainer.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-mentally-strong)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 20:25:21, 15/08/20
Mel will be pleased - lovely pics, Pleb
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Bigfoot_Mike on 20:58:58, 15/08/20
Mel would also be pleased if she was in Aberdeenshire. Today I saw the best heather I have seen in over 20 years in Scotland (no pictures).
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 17:12:36, 10/09/20
Frantic Googling suggests this is Toad Flax - do the experts agree?


(https://i.ibb.co/CwHy5Vk/20200910-105654.jpg) (https://ibb.co/vcjWxL7)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 18:21:59, 10/09/20
Yes it is toadflax, Linaria vulgaris, but you'll be a bit affronted to know Ninthace that is is the common toadflax  :) :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 19:08:36, 10/09/20
Yes it is toadflax, Linaria vulgaris, but you'll be a bit affronted to know Ninthace that is is the common toadflax  :) :)
Well it is common where you find it.  A couple of walks ago we noticed it but the next trip, nothing, even though we were in the same area.  This time there was a short stretch where there were quite a few plants then again, nothing.  It seems to favour east facing banks round here.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 07:55:26, 22/09/20
Not strictly speaking Flora, as fungi are not plants (in fact they are more closely related to us!), but here goes anyway...

Spotted quite a few of these beauties up on the side of Hampsfell recently. They are Parasol Mushrooms (Lepiota Procera), and apparently they are delicious - although I couldn't bring myself to destroy such a beautiful thing. The largest was almost 10" across, as measured by the graduations on my walking pole.

(https://i.ibb.co/C6zqX3x/20200918-101652a.jpg)


(https://i.ibb.co/8BfRwmh/20200918-103209a.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: watershed on 09:53:54, 22/09/20
They look great Richard.


Here is some "heather Berries" (Correct name is crow Berries), great for jam.
(https://i.postimg.cc/rpDfHFCv/P1130976.jpg)

Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 11:02:57, 22/09/20
I'll see your crowberries and raise you some cowberries!

(https://i.ibb.co/X2hgS48/52a-Cowberries.jpg)
They are a bit sour and taste rather like cranberries.

Often used to see crowberries on the Orkney clifftops, never enough to pick for jam, though. Incidentally, crowberry bushes make a very comfortable surface to camp upon.
(https://i.ibb.co/mtKB406/Best-surface.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Eyelet on 13:05:36, 23/09/20
Here's a seasonal contribution - the Autumn Gentian, also known as Autumn Fellwort. I first spotted this in Wensleydale in the limestone grassland near Ellerkin Scar, then again in the North York Moors beside the track near Kepwick Quarry.


(https://i.ibb.co/52jpB19/Autumn-Gentian.jpg) (https://ibb.co/jHw0g85)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 08:32:25, 24/09/20
Got to love a gentian O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: watershed on 20:04:55, 23/10/20
Knew I had a photo of some from North Roe.
(https://i.postimg.cc/sgpB583M/P1011065.jpg)

Title: Re: Flora
Post by: watershed on 20:14:30, 23/10/20
I found this near Lang Clodie Wick, its caught a midge, Hurrah!


(https://i.postimg.cc/zfZccLmd/P1011061-3.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: watershed on 20:33:26, 23/10/20
Lichen Flowers??


Ronas Hill


(https://i.postimg.cc/nrJBY8Cr/P1150697-2.jpg)

Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 12:35:44, 24/10/20
Lichen but not strictly speaking 'flowers'. Lichen is complicated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichen

Using this fantastic website  http://www.wildflowerfinder.org.uk/  It looks like 'Red Crest or 'British Soldier Lichen'
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 12:44:11, 24/10/20
Jac beat me to it by 5 minutes! I was going to describe the red bits as (probably) the fruiting bodies that release spores. The thin, silvery 'branches' are another species. Excellent macro photograhy!
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: watershed on 14:11:41, 24/10/20
Excellent many thanks for the info and web sites
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dodgylegs on 14:41:29, 24/10/20
I found this near Lang Clodie Wick, its caught a midge, Hurrah!


I can see you could make a fortune selling these to plant around Scottish lands!
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Forager on 21:59:21, 24/10/20
Nice picture, the are some really nice lichen on our walks.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 13:12:19, 01/11/20
Spotted on our walk this morning - a number of Magpie Inkcaps, which are apparently quite rare in the UK:

(http://www.cruisingmates.co.uk/coppermine/albums/userpics/10054/Magpie_Inkcap_3.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dodgylegs on 15:54:34, 01/11/20
Amazing!
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: watershed on 15:42:16, 16/02/21
Nice one Dave
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: watershed on 18:08:22, 16/02/21
(https://i.postimg.cc/K899w94N/P1033231-3.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 19:23:06, 16/02/21
Likin the lichen ;) 


As I was pointing out to my grandson recently, lichen colours our world



Crustose or foliose?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: gunwharfman on 17:53:11, 17/02/21
Was it you Jac that suggested the 'wildfooduk.com' site a while ago? Definitely a good one, well laid out, I look at it a lot.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 15:14:17, 18/02/21
Was it you Jac that suggested the 'wildfooduk.com' site a while ago? Definitely a good one, well laid out, I look at it a lot.
No, not me. Good site though, I agree.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 14:19:42, 14/03/21
Spotted on our local walk this morning - patches of Wood Anemone:

(http://www.cruisingmates.co.uk/coppermine/albums/userpics/10054/Wood_Anenomes_2021.jpg)

An early wildflower in ancient woodlands. Indeed, the plant is often taken as evidence that the woodland is genuinely ancient.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 08:53:29, 15/03/21
Good to see - not spotted any wood anemones is flower down here (Devon) yet.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 14:45:19, 31/03/21
Came across these today growing in marshy ground by a pond.  Very striking yellow and visible from a fair way off.  Can anyone identify them?

(https://i.postimg.cc/fLD4zFHP/20210331-115856.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

(https://i.postimg.cc/J4927v0Q/20210331-115918.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: davengf on 15:04:49, 31/03/21
Weird coincidence!
I came across some in the depths of the Purbecks yesterday but mine came with a passerby who told me they were Skunk Lillies.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 15:16:42, 31/03/21
Weird coincidence!
I came across some in the depths of the Purbecks yesterday but mine came with a passerby who told me they were Skunk Lillies.
Thanks - found it now - Western Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanus)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysichiton_americanus
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 15:25:37, 31/03/21
Another one, from a distance we thought we had found some early bluebells but when we got close they were imposters.

(https://i.postimg.cc/25dVH1VB/20210331-104733.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)


(https://i.postimg.cc/W1g33dmf/20210331-104751.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

We found some real bluebells later just before we got to the skunk cabbage.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Strider on 01:03:03, 06/04/21
Some coconut-scented gorse on the clifftop path between Rockcliffe and Port O'Warren
(https://i.imgur.com/9kbWuAN.jpg)

with views to the Cumbrian fells
(https://i.imgur.com/lWeGQBZ.jpg)

and descending to Port O'Warren bay with Criffel beyond
(https://i.imgur.com/3EfKYGO.jpg)

I don't know what these white flowers are, one growing in the woods
(https://i.imgur.com/ElQaJ8y.jpg)

and one by the shore
(https://i.imgur.com/I7MqIc2.jpg)

This stuffs been in flower for a few weeks
(https://i.imgur.com/UZC8UHS.jpg)

Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 18:40:03, 06/04/21
Another one, from a distance we thought we had found some early bluebells but when we got close they were imposters.

(https://i.postimg.cc/W1g33dmf/20210331-104751.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)


Scilla Verna, or Spring Squill, I think.


I caused some debate amongst the Orkney Field Club when I posted a photo of a white variant on their facebook page.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 19:10:32, 06/04/21
Nice coastline, Strider. Stayed a week in Dalbeattie one autumn a few years back - was actually on our shortlist of places to move to.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dodgylegs on 23:06:38, 06/04/21
Nice coastline, Strider. Stayed a week in Dalbeattie one autumn a few years back - was actually on our shortlist of places to move to.
Stayed in Dalbeattie a few years ago, travelled from there to one of the wildest, most incredible places I've been to.... Mull of Galloway!

Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 08:05:40, 07/04/21
I don't know what these white flowers are, one growing in the woods
(https://i.imgur.com/ElQaJ8y.jpg)


Look like wood anemones to me.  :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ayjay on 16:39:52, 12/04/21
First sign of this year's Bog Beacon this afternoon.(https://i.postimg.cc/vmZTLpR5/IMG-9284-c-r.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: MkPotato on 17:20:13, 12/04/21
Some coconut-scented gorse on the clifftop path between Rockcliffe and Port O'Warren
Nice pics.


There’s a lot of gorse around at the moment it the Lakes. It looks stunning.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Strider on 09:56:36, 15/04/21
Thanks Richard, MK  :)

Bog Beacon's a new one to me ayjay, looks rather alien!
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ayjay on 12:17:42, 15/04/21


Bog Beacon's a new one to me ayjay, looks rather alien!
It's a fungus, quite small:  distribution is listed as widespread but infrequent, (uncommon may be more accurate than infrequent).
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 14:28:13, 15/04/21
A nice patch of Honesty (Lunaria annua) spotted in the woods on this morning's walk...

(http://www.cruisingmates.co.uk/coppermine/albums/userpics/10054/Honesty_wildflower.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 15:27:45, 09/06/21
I only know of one place within miles of Whitstable where I can find Early Purple Orchids - in a small area in nearby Clowes Wood.

I've seen them as early as April, but each year they seem to flower later and, despite having been on the lookout for weeks, I had to wait until today to finally spot any.

Better late than never, but I think the 'Early' part of the name might need reconsidering...  :)

(http://www.cruisingmates.co.uk/coppermine/albums/userpics/10054/Early_Purple_Orchids_1.jpg)

(http://www.cruisingmates.co.uk/coppermine/albums/userpics/10054/Early_Purple_Orchids_2.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 21:33:49, 14/06/21
(https://i.postimg.cc/bJGnKjBp/thumbnail-3.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Bee orchid
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 06:51:45, 15/06/21
OOO got to love a bee orchid O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 20:18:31, 17/06/21
(https://i.postimg.cc/zBYSkthX/thumbnail-4.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 08:49:58, 19/06/21
 >:(  now that's just being greedy ;) >:(
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 14:59:54, 31/01/22
We saw our first flowering primrose of the year this morning:  :)
 
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/2613/42METr.jpg)

(It was in the woods - not in someone's garden!  ;) )
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 14:08:17, 18/03/22
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/7744/GfVhxy.jpg)

A wonderful display of wood anemones this morning. They're a feature of ancient woodland and, in fact, their presence is a sign that a woodland is indeed ancient because they spread so slowly.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 22:41:22, 18/03/22
Good stuff, I have not seen any.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dodgylegs on 14:30:37, 24/03/22
Walk around beautiful peaceful Thorp Perrow Arboretum to see all the daffs ...


These are tiny! Anyone know what variety?


(https://i.postimg.cc/XvCXgFN2/9-BBD42-EE-DC79-41-F9-A1-B8-FF998-F1-A478-D.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/d7Jqshyd)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: SophyQQ on 07:19:59, 25/03/22
Such beautiful photos! Thanks for sharing  :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: SophyQQ on 07:21:20, 25/03/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/bJGnKjBp/thumbnail-3.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Bee orchid


What is the name of the flower?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 08:03:40, 25/03/22
Bee orchid (I think), SophyQQ
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 12:34:23, 05/04/22
I spotted my first flowering bluebells of 2022 during my walk this morning.  :)

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/1814/yTivwV.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 17:00:01, 05/04/22
Early!
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dodgylegs on 17:11:46, 05/04/22
I was surprised to see some today!
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 21:22:16, 05/04/22
OK - here's an unusual one for you:


(https://i.ibb.co/WWvz49z/Toothwort.jpg)


Ignore the green leaves - they are cow parsley or similar umbilifer. The pale pink flowers are Toothwort (Lathraea squamaria), a plant that has no chlorophyll as it is a parasite, getting all it needs from the roots of trees.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: staggerindragon on 02:48:00, 06/04/22
Ooo!  That reminds me of this rare little beauty that blooms in July-August here.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora)


Roughly where did you spot your sexy little parasite?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 07:52:05, 06/04/22
Love the Toothwort, Richard. A great find O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 08:16:19, 06/04/22
Ooo!  That reminds me of this rare little beauty that blooms in July-August here.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora)

Roughly where did you spot your sexy little parasite?


Beside Cartmel Lane just outside Grange over Sands in Cumbria, UK.


Where is 'here' in your post, by the way?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: staggerindragon on 01:06:58, 07/04/22
Thanks, I'll  have to pay more attention in early spring.


My here is Edmonton, Canada, but I really enjoy the  long  distance paths  in the UK, especially Cumbria and  Yorkshire.  Looking  forward to getting  back sooner rather than later.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 08:22:31, 07/04/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/mDcYbvcD/IMG-20220406-155052-1.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Cowslips coming out.  
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 14:48:32, 12/04/22
From this morning’s local woods walk…

Dog’s mercury - common in ancient woodland:

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/4206/fFhguO.jpg)

Cuckooflower - a sure sign of spring. Pinkish white flowers; loves damp ground. (Also the far more common lesser celandine!):

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/3944/wi9usS.jpg)

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/5986/qoA7tt.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 18:05:17, 12/04/22
Yes, lovely to see the spring flowers appearing. A lot of the woods here in South Cumbria are full of Dog's Mercury, a nice carpet of green, despite the flowers being very inconspicuous.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: SophyQQ on 04:24:04, 13/04/22
From this morning’s local woods walk…

Dog’s mercury - common in ancient woodland:

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/4206/fFhguO.jpg)

Cuckooflower - a sure sign of spring. Pinkish white flowers; loves damp ground. (Also the far more common lesser celandine!):

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/3944/wi9usS.jpg)

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/5986/qoA7tt.jpg)


Nice photos! Thanks for sharing
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 18:22:11, 16/04/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/9ML1H008/IMG-20220415-144335-3.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Golden saxifrage?  
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 12:54:25, 21/04/22
Spotted on my walk this morning...

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/9750/GL4EC0.jpg)

Flowering Ramsons (wild garlic, etc.). Well, it's a start!  :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 09:56:31, 28/04/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/ZqWPBNB7/IMG-20220426-145921-3.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 09:57:43, 28/04/22
Above is few flowered leek, allium paradoxum, growing by the dales way a little north of ilkley.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 13:05:16, 01/05/22
Spotted this morning on our trail run in Denge Wood (nr Canterbury)...

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/3875/53dRIg.jpg)

...some quite magnificent early purple orchids.  :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dodgylegs on 23:33:44, 08/05/22
Walking through RHS Harrogate came across this tree...
(https://i.postimg.cc/LXzPHMqY/E447816-D-41-EE-4574-BAB6-C94-D0-EAA511-B.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/62pq0gft)
Is this a fruit growing or...? I have very little knowledge about trees!


Walking along riverside noticed a lot of these...
(https://i.postimg.cc/zv7RgSFq/9-DBE4854-D8-CC-4850-A703-545-DDC953-CE8.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/xNkCrmZZ)
Any thoughts as to what they are?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Jac on 10:10:25, 09/05/22
The first is an Oak 'Apple' - not an fruit but a gall caused by a tiny wasp. 7 Galls to Spot This Year - Woodland Trust (https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2018/07/galls-to-spot-this-year/#:~:text=1.%20Oak%20apple%20gall%20This%20is%20one%20of,start%20the%20process%20for%20the%20formation%20of%20galls.?msclkid=86e66b03cf7711ec9c39e294c8422b58).
Dried ones were ground up to make ink and had other uses in dying fabric.

The second, I think, are the catkins of a willow (don't know which willow there are rather a lot to chose from)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dodgylegs on 13:33:03, 09/05/22
Thanks Jac ... appreciate sharing your knowledge  O0


Walking through the tranquil woods met a student, ended up having a long chat. Mentioned Otters being spotted all along river, they had never seen an Otter, but had seen Beavers. Their father is a farmer in Devon who is involved in releasing Beavers back into the wild.... what did I watch on telly tuther night.... programme about Devon & Cornwall, which featured a farmer in Devon showing Beavers recently released into the wild!
Title: Bluebells . They are worth waiting for .
Post by: GnP on 16:32:51, 09/05/22



Every year spring feels more precious and better than the one before . Maybe an age thing .  :)



(https://i.postimg.cc/g2XzxHSy/Bluebells.jpg)



Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 20:59:48, 22/05/22
Eskdale Dog Rose - first that I have seen this year.


(https://i.ibb.co/k1W1G3S/010.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 18:43:24, 31/05/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/zvwJ6vKb/IMG-20220531-155730-1.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: happyhiker on 22:53:20, 31/05/22
(https://www.happyhiker.co.uk/MyWalks/Devon/Salcombe%20to%20Sharp%20Tor/14)%20Wild%20orchids%20at%20Mary%20Knowle%20Farm.jpg)


Seen on a Devon walk a couple of weeks ago.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 15:33:39, 04/06/22
Common bistort, spotted by the side of a lane in Carmarthenshire:

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img921/1332/pBkHXk.jpg)

(Not quite in focus  :( .)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Mel on 21:48:14, 12/06/22
Eeeek!  Spotted some cross-leaved heather on my walk today  :o


(https://i.postimg.cc/d3t3LmMV/IMG-20220612-122505-1.jpg)



Title: Re: Flora
Post by: GnP on 19:12:41, 14/06/22

Foxglove and a busy bee .

(https://i.postimg.cc/TPQ8NvC9/P6140563.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 19:42:50, 15/06/22
Meadow cranesbill
(https://i.postimg.cc/cL4wwG0c/IMG-20220614-152254-3.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 19:44:24, 15/06/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/W3P4m00P/IMG-20220614-151305-4.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Agrimony  
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 19:47:07, 15/06/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/GtmdzK26/IMG-20220614-151102.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Weld  
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 19:48:40, 15/06/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/fTXDCVTz/IMG-20220614-145052-3.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Thyme
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 19:49:52, 15/06/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/J0ZvNB3S/IMG-20220614-145023-1.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Wild strawberry
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 19:51:28, 15/06/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/pXkkgZdq/IMG-20220614-124248-3.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)lain wallpaper (https://suwalls.com/anime/serial-experiments-lain)
Orchid
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 19:52:38, 15/06/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/rFyNCr9W/IMG-20220614-124804-3.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Bladder campion?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 19:54:02, 15/06/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/8cYc69HZ/IMG-20220614-124852-3.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
One of the bitterwort?  
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 19:55:48, 15/06/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/tgrsbs60/IMG-20220614-124859-2.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Not sure, looks a bit like valerian?  
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 19:57:39, 15/06/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/XYPM03vH/IMG-20220614-125429.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Rock Rose
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 19:58:48, 15/06/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/rp4HXr3s/IMG-20220614-144419-1.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)galvatron wallpaper (https://suwalls.com/movies/transformers-the-rise-of-galvatron)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dodgylegs on 22:32:08, 16/06/22
Walking down Greatham Creek, Seal spotting ... two Seals came under the bridge and surfaced right in front, sat looking at me for a while then  off they went...magic!



Then spotted this ... any ideas as to what it is?
(https://i.postimg.cc/3R9rsZPp/40921356-9-AEF-40-E5-B59-E-A2-C2-BFC8-C44-A.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/tZZHPFRC)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: davengf on 07:30:40, 17/06/22
That's nice.
I had to look it up but think it's Vipers Bugloss


https://www.ukwildflowers.com/Web_pages/echium_vulgare_vipers_bugloss.htm

 
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 08:36:08, 17/06/22
Yes vipers bugloss.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dodgylegs on 20:02:59, 17/06/22
Thanks davengf & pleb, appreciate it.  O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: andybr on 15:23:59, 19/07/22
A Heath Fragrant Orchid on the coast near Lochinver this week. A first for me it took me a little while to identify it.


(https://i.ibb.co/py47ktk/P1160860.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 18:48:20, 20/07/22
Well spotted and identified  O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 16:55:54, 28/07/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/sfWn4SJt/IMG-20220728-144003-3.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 20:26:45, 07/08/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/g0nKNC29/IMG-20220807-171149-1.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)images uplode link (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 17:13:15, 18/08/22
I was in heather heaven yesterday...(https://i.ibb.co/JkfskYG/128.jpg)

(https://i.ibb.co/zfPThYs/131.jpg)

(https://i.ibb.co/QYJV3pj/133.jpg)


Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 17:15:54, 18/08/22
(https://i.ibb.co/PQ1RK7L/126.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dodgylegs on 17:20:56, 18/08/22
Loads of lovely heather on way up Cheviots Richard!
(https://i.postimg.cc/90tSKsWD/E784-E48-F-258-C-4-AFB-AE1-B-FA07423-A8-B34.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/fSyB02Ss)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 18:30:35, 18/08/22
There's nothing quite like a mass of heather in bloom.
With the exception of bluebells, that is.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dodgylegs on 22:16:06, 23/09/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/yxT8Jw6Z/117234-A2-9-C75-4468-B7-AB-21-D199-E33861.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/LgnpwQ19)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: watershed on 09:46:23, 24/09/22
Wow!
We don't get that number of Berries here, most of our blooms and flowers are smaller.

Title: Re: Flora
Post by: watershed on 09:50:43, 24/09/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/Wzv9BZGB/P1056561-2.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: watershed on 09:52:02, 24/09/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/HWrXmnZK/P1056563-2.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: watershed on 09:52:58, 24/09/22
(https://i.postimg.cc/kGq0xzpR/P1056571-2.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dodgylegs on 13:02:52, 24/09/22
Those are little beauties watershed, are they on the Isles?


Trip down to North Yorkshire Moors Railway Steam Gala, disturbed a lizard sunbathing.. scrambled down a hole.. came across some splendid looking fungus, unfortunately had wrong lens on camera so a little out of focus! Have plenty of photos of steam trains if anyone would like me to post them somewhere?



(https://i.postimg.cc/htpJwbsb/28-B0-F5-A7-ED1-E-46-B8-BC2-F-0102-C2587450.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/FYkskS27)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dodgylegs on 22:55:11, 25/09/22
Any ideas on this one?


(https://i.postimg.cc/qB9jLnqD/E738-B27-A-12-E1-486-A-8753-DC865-F8-FD4-B5.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/c6BR1vQf)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 11:36:38, 26/09/22
It's a fungus  ;D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 08:49:44, 02/11/22
Trees showing off in Glen Lyon


(https://i.ibb.co/4WD5hNk/106.jpg)


(https://i.ibb.co/zFFH8Gw/104.jpg)


(https://i.ibb.co/6FmXLV1/229.jpg)


(https://i.ibb.co/tLyySKY/510.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 08:50:39, 02/11/22
Fungi too !


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Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 19:44:55, 14/04/23
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Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 19:51:31, 14/04/23
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Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dodgylegs on 15:38:27, 18/04/23
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Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 19:51:22, 07/05/23
(https://i.postimg.cc/nzyXjp1h/IMG-20230507-131010-3.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Brimstone butterfly today  
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 20:31:51, 07/05/23
Nice dandelion, pleb.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 08:21:01, 08/05/23
Nice dandelion, pleb.
Oops! Brain fade. Oh well, there's the dandelion as well as the butterfly  ;D
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 14:24:26, 08/05/23
Green winged orchids spotted on this morning's local walk:

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Title: Re: Flora
Post by: GnP on 20:37:54, 25/05/23

Red Campion dancing in the shadows on a lovely walk today around the village of Ratley in Warwickshire .

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Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 14:54:08, 26/05/23
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Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 14:54:41, 26/05/23
That was a pyramid orchid I believe.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: GnP on 14:05:11, 30/05/23

The fields near to Henley In Arden are festooned with buttercups . We might not have been lucky enough to be there at the right time previously or maybe they just seem better & brighter this year .  :)

(https://i.postimg.cc/NFvFcjqF/P5280935.jpg)


(https://i.postimg.cc/LsFbjdpf/festooned.jpg)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 20:16:01, 30/05/23
Looks like my lawn, lol !  I must mow it sometime (but not until the flowers are ended).
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: WhitstableDave on 12:49:11, 31/05/23
Spotted this morning in our local woods:

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/1636/pe6taH.jpg)

I think it's a common spotted orchid.  :)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 16:12:29, 31/05/23
I'll second that, Dave. The lower lip is deeply lobed, whereas on the extremely similar heath spotted orchid the lower lip is 'toothed'.

Dare I say "Well spotted"?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 14:20:49, 01/06/23
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Orchids at St Aidens rspb reserve today. Common spotted or a hybrid therof, I think.  
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 18:45:27, 01/06/23
Spectacular flowers! There are no spots on the leaves, and I'll take a guess at one of the marsh orchids. Given it's location just outside Leeds (you named the reserve) I'll venture it's Northern marsh orchid.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 10:01:53, 02/06/23
Odd, I could have sworn there were spots on the leaves, but none on the photos.
Years ago a plant bod told me that northern in respect to northern marsh orchid really meant up in Scotland. But do the orchids know this?
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 10:33:38, 02/06/23
Distribution map here:  https://species.nbnatlas.org/species/NHMSYS0000457952 (https://species.nbnatlas.org/species/NHMSYS0000457952)
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: andybr on 14:22:08, 02/06/23
There are quite large numbers of Northern Marsh Orchids at Tarn Howes so they can definitely be found as far south as that.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 09:02:09, 08/06/23
Certainly seems to be a great year for flowers.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 16:48:07, 12/07/23
An alpine plant that I have yet to identify - anyone know what it is? Location - Lairig Ghru, Cairngorms, altitude 800m or so.


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Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 16:49:53, 12/07/23
Also spotted both types of sundew in Glen Derry.


(https://i.ibb.co/tX0m6GN/118.jpg)


(https://i.ibb.co/sm8PbVv/120.jpg)


Edit - round leaved a bit out of focus - my excuse is that I was being bitten by a horsefly at the time!
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: davengf on 16:54:12, 12/07/23
Pretty! - Just looked on Google - could be Saw-wort
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 17:00:29, 12/07/23
Pretty! - Just looked on Google - could be Saw-wort
Thanks - will check it out

Edit - really not sure.

Edit2 - I have had it confirmed that it is Alpine Saw-wort.  O0
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 09:41:23, 07/08/23
(https://i.ibb.co/d292q1Z/045.jpg)  (https://i.ibb.co/tc9TkQv/042.jpg)

(https://i.ibb.co/XkKnW6j/041.jpg)  (https://i.ibb.co/hVkVxPF/040.jpg)

I came across a meadow speckled with beautiful wild pansies whilst descending through Wythop Moss in the North Lakes on Friday. There were pretty flowers by the thousand scattered amongst the grass, each plant having flowers with a unique 'face', for want of a better word. Absolutely enchanting.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 09:42:31, 21/08/23
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Title: Re: Flora
Post by: barewirewalker on 11:09:19, 21/08/23
Oak Apples or Galls .
An ingredient of medieval ink or catapult ammunition in my young days, when proving that you were not firing stones.

Quote
AboutThe oak apple gall wasp, Biorhiza pallida, is a tiny wasp that causes growths, or 'galls', on oak twigs. These galls can be found between May and June where the female has laid her eggs in the leaf bud. Inside the gall, there are a number of chambers, each housing a larva which eats its way out. Adults emerge in June and July.


How to identify
The oak apple gall wasp produces a large, rough, buffish-brown, apple-like gall that can be found on oak twigs.
Did you know?

The oak apple gall wasp has a second generation: the females that emerge in spring mate and drop to the ground to lay eggs in oak roots, producing further galls.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: fernman on 15:06:27, 21/08/23
I thought oak apple galls too, but wasn't sure because they're slightly odd-looking oak leaves.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: andybr on 16:41:58, 21/08/23
The tree is a Sessile rather than a Pedunculate Oak. They are quite impressive gall's though.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 18:25:55, 28/08/23
Some flowers spotted on our recent holiday at Hartland Point (https://wildaboutwalking.wordpress.com/england/rest-of-england/north-devon-2023/)


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(https://i.ibb.co/yRjQG0W/13-30.jpg)


(https://i.ibb.co/zS6JfRP/16-06.jpg)


(https://i.ibb.co/bdbZ3td/17-24.jpg)


(https://i.ibb.co/Npb0SJR/18-26.jpg)


We struggled with the last one, spotted on the cliffs a few miles north of Bude, near Northcott Mouth. Think that it is Rock Sea Spurrey.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: ninthace on 06:48:20, 21/02/24
Not very exciting, but comparatively unusual.  Southern Edelweiss
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Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 17:30:31, 23/02/24
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Title: Re: Flora
Post by: pleb on 17:31:04, 23/02/24
Above, Blackthorn flowers.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: richardh1905 on 18:07:32, 23/02/24
Blackthorn is lovely, coming into bloom here in South Cumbria too.
Title: Re: Flora
Post by: Dodgylegs on 18:19:07, 22/03/24
(https://i.postimg.cc/85TCcXpz/temp-Imagejdlp-So.avif) (https://postimg.cc/SXt4trYB)