Help Please on this flower.......

hooklink · #1 (**permalink**) 17-05-2007, 08:30 PM

I have tried this image on several web sites similar to this one, and as yet no one has come up with a solid suggestion for this plant. I found it growing on a coastal path on Portland, and there was only one clump of it. So far this site has come to my rescue on a number of occasions, so please see if any one can sort this one out.....

agrumpycow · #2 (**permalink**) 17-05-2007, 08:45 PM

Flowers look like Pink Sorrel?

Hornbeam · #3 (**permalink**) 17-05-2007, 08:58 PM

A sight of the leaves would clinch it, but I agree. Its a garden escape. See: Pink-Sorrel

C C · #4 (**permalink**) 17-05-2007, 09:00 PM

I was thinking a sea lavender of some sort.

hooklink · #5 (**permalink**) 17-05-2007, 09:13 PM

Well that did not take long, I knew I could rely on this site, thanks very much...

Adam Cheeseman · #6 (**permalink**) 18-05-2007, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by hooklink

I have tried this image on several web sites similar to this one, and as yet no one has come up with a solid suggestion for this plant. I found it growing on a coastal path on Portland, and there was only one clump of it. So far this site has come to my rescue on a number of occasions, so please see if any one can sort this one out.....

Pink Oxalis: garden jobby

Cheers,

Adam

Paul mabbott · #7 (**permalink**) 18-05-2007, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Hornbeam

A sight of the leaves would clinch it, but I agree. Its a garden escape. See: Pink-Sorrel

Very good point Hornbeam - I could make several things of these flowers but the leaves would be distinctive! A plea to everyone flowers in the picture, of course, but also the leaves along with some idea of the size ....

Tiggrx · #8 (**permalink**) 18-05-2007, 07:39 PM

while I would agree it is always useful to have leaves in a picture, in this case I think it may have been difficult.
I grow quite a several plants of this species in my garden and frequently find that the leaflets 'disappear' leaving naked leaf stalks - you can see quite a few of these in hooklink's picture. It seems to be a feature of this species

Paul mabbott · #9 (**permalink**) 18-05-2007, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Tiggrx

while I would agree it is always useful to have leaves in a picture, in this case I think it may have been difficult.
I grow quite a several plants of this species in my garden and frequently find that the leaflets 'disappear' leaving naked leaf stalks - you can see quite a few of these in hooklink's picture. It seems to be a feature of this species

Oh. Have never noticed it ... could it be the slugs? The stems do look as if they may have been nibbled ...

agrumpycow · #10 (**permalink**) 18-05-2007, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Adam Cheeseman

Pink Oxalis: garden jobby

Cheers,

Adam

Isn't this the same this as Pink Sorrel?
And Garden Jobby sound like something I have to pick up after my dogs have been out in the morning

Adam Cheeseman · #11 (**permalink**) 19-05-2007, 01:09 PM

Yes, it is the same, I just prefer the older name for it rather than sorrel, same goes for its more menacing smaller relative Yellow Oxsalis (sorrel).

Garden Jobby - I could have called it one of my more disparaging names for a garden escape, but I know there are ladies out there.

Cheers,

Adam

hooklink · #12 (**permalink**) 19-05-2007, 05:04 PM

Well I have to say after all this great comment that I could see no leaves at all at the time of taking the photo, I spend a lot of time photographing plants. and am well aware of the importantance of trying to get all the bits and pieces of the plant in a image, but on this occasion there were none to see,sorry...
Stewart...