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Originally Posted by jennyb  I have to say that I am pleased that someone else has trouble with the Francis Rose "Key" book. Maybe I am just thick but I don't understand it at all.
However, yes, without using Rose, I agree with AGC, your flower is Nipplewort.
Jenny |
I struggle with "The Wild Flower key", too. I think it's a bit too complicated if, like me, you just have a fairly general interest in wildflowers (or maybe I'm just thick, too!). It's obviously intended for people who take the subject fairly seriously, and are willing to take the time to examine plants in great detail in order to identify them correctly. To be fair, obviously that is the only way to identify some species (other than making use of the kind experts here on WAB!).
Also, I think some of the drawings in the book are dreadful, for example the colour for the flowers of Musk Mallow seems completely wrong to me - as the text says, it should be rose-pink, the drawing makes it more purplish than Common Mallow! (To be fair, most of the drawings are very good, but I think a few are completely misleading).