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07-05-2006, 03:54 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Havant, Hampshire and occasionally Bolton, Lancashire
Posts: 457
| | | Stumped!
Hi all, new here and thankfully managed to find this site via Google.
Yesterday I took a trip to Formby Point (kind of Lancashire but comes under Merseyside) and stumbled upon a wildflower that I'd never seen before.
It was growing amongst pine woodland with very sandy soil (Formby Point is right on the coast). It was growing in adundance here and I would say that it definitely liked the shade and the whole woodland floor was covered in it.
As yet I haven't managed to upload my photo but have found another (copyright remains with this person) for you to take a look at.
I am a very keen photographer and have suddenly taken a great interest in wildflowers and am hoping that the ones I have added to my website of recent have been correct identifications! www.igimages.co.uk
Many thanks in advance,
Ian G |
07-05-2006, 04:04 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Crawley,Sussex
Posts: 943
| | | Re: Stumped!
Welcome to WAB Ian 
Sorry can't help with your flower  |
07-05-2006, 04:20 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Cambridgeshire
Posts: 3,239
| | | Re: Stumped!
Think it might be Spring Beauty - Montia perfoliata. On the other hand I could be way off.
PS Welcome to WAB. I'm sure you will enjoy it.
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W.H.Davies |
07-05-2006, 04:22 PM
| | Active Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 94
| | | Re: Stumped!
This is Spring Beauty Montia perfoliata of the Purslane family. |
07-05-2006, 04:33 PM
| | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Havant, Hampshire and occasionally Bolton, Lancashire
Posts: 457
| |  Re: Stumped!
Thanks guys! Much appreciated!
What's bizarre is that I inadvertantly added a link to this website last week sometime and hadn't actually realised it had a forum!
I can now add the photo I took to my website without having to worry about the Natural History mafia giving me a hard time! 
Best regards,
Ian G www.igimages.co.uk |
07-05-2006, 04:34 PM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: exmouth devon uk
Posts: 5,478
| | | Re: Stumped!
Welcome to wab |
07-05-2006, 04:34 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Cornwall..
Posts: 1,490
| | | Re: Stumped!
Well done guys, I trolled through 2 id books and was on the 3rd when dinner turned up and can you believe spring beauty was on the next page I got to when I next looked. I love looking up plants.
Welcome to Wab Ian..................Jon |
07-05-2006, 04:38 PM
| | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Havant, Hampshire and occasionally Bolton, Lancashire
Posts: 457
| | | Re: Stumped!
Thank you all also for an extremely warm welcome!!
I know for a fact that I'll be a frequent visitor here
Ian G www.igimages.co.uk |
08-05-2006, 07:05 AM
| | Active Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 94
| | | Re: Stumped!
The latest name for Spring Beauty is Claytonia perfoliata
Now you have a choice of which one to use! |
08-05-2006, 07:37 AM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 959
| | | Re: Stumped!
Jonny - since you like trying to solve wildflower puzzles please take a look at http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/fo...id-please.html and see if you can identify this one. So far no-one has come up with an answer. Open to all of course.  | | | |
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