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14-08-2007, 11:58 AM
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| | | Burnet-saxifrage?
A quick id check is needed - would I be right in identifying this one as Burnet-saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga)? Thanks in advance!  |
14-08-2007, 12:15 PM
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| | | Re: Burnet-saxifrage?
certainly looks like it....but i'd hesitate to say i'm a 100% because i'm quite often wrong about carrots!
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14-08-2007, 04:01 PM
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| | | Re: Burnet-saxifrage?
Looks like Greater Burnet-saxifrage (Pimpinella major) to me. |
14-08-2007, 04:20 PM
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| | | Re: Burnet-saxifrage?
Thank you both - this is my dilemma with it..... Initially I thought Greater Burnet-saxifrage, but then I found a photograph of a plant in a different location which looks completely different, much bigger, different leaves.
The plant below seems a better match with the illustrations in Rose, Cassells, and Garrett and Streeter for Greater Burnet-saxifrage, which is why I'm wondering whether the one above is Burnet-saxifrage.....? 
Sorry its such a bad photo - taken from the car in pouring rain! |
14-08-2007, 04:31 PM
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| | | Re: Burnet-saxifrage?
You are right - your second lot of photo's is definitely Greater B-s. I'm still not 100% sure about the first though. Burnet-saxifrage is a very variable plant and can often catch out much better botanists than me  . I am most used to seeing it growing in short mown turf (usually churchyards).
I would expect to see at least some narrowly-dissected leaves on B-s which don't seem to occur on your plant. Quote:
Originally Posted by JennyS  Thank you both - this is my dilemma with it..... Initially I thought Greater Burnet-saxifrage, but then I found a photograph of a plant in a different location which looks completely different, much bigger, different leaves.
The plant below seems a better match with the illustrations in Rose, Cassells, and Garrett and Streeter for Greater Burnet-saxifrage, which is why I'm wondering whether the one above is Burnet-saxifrage.....?
Sorry its such a bad photo - taken from the car in pouring rain! | |
14-08-2007, 11:54 PM
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| | | Re: Burnet-saxifrage?
Don't think you can easily split these two with a photo Jenny. I've sat down next to whichever one it was with the books and found characters of both, leaving unconvinced of the id. |
15-08-2007, 09:38 AM
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| | | Re: Burnet-saxifrage?
Location had a bit to do with my initial id - the first plant was on much dryer, less fertile ground....
Having looked closer at all my photos of it there are no "narrowly-dissected leaves" to be seen anywhere.....but the stem does look ridged! Unfortunately there were no seedheads yet, so no id help there.
Looks like another one for the "hmmm" folder! | | |
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