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26-04-2008, 03:02 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kensworth, Bedfordshire (W/ends) and Huntingdon
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| | | Unknown plant
Please can you identify this plant for me. I'm sure I should know what it is, but I don't! It is certainly very common - it seems to be covering large swathes of the Chiltern Hills at the moment. |
26-04-2008, 04:29 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: London
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| | | Re: Unknown plant
It is Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis) a very common spring woodland flower. |
26-04-2008, 04:33 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Kirk Michael, Isle of Man.
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| | | Re: Unknown plant
Agree its Dog's Mercury 
Barbara |
26-04-2008, 05:01 PM
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| | | Re: Unknown plant
Dogs Mercury Mercuralis perennis. Its an AWI (Ancient Woodland Indictor), although it grows well on in the Old Brick Works at Pinkneys Green, Maidenhead. Large patches can be clonal and therefore of a single sex, as it is dioecious.
poschiavanus |
26-04-2008, 06:05 PM
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| | | Re: Unknown plant
Also quite poisonous, hence the name.
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27-04-2008, 10:03 AM
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| | | Re: Unknown plant
Thanks everybody for your replies. I've been seeing it all over the place for several weeks now, and it was really bugging me that I didn't know what it was.
This is only the second Spring since I became interested in wildflowers, so there's still lots of common plants that I'm seeing for the first time. On Friday I saw my first Wood Sorrel and my first native Yellow Archangel (I'd only seen the escaped garden variety with the silver effect on the leaves before). | | |
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