Help With Plant ID - Yorkshire Dales

[Binocularface]

Originally Posted by djackso

I've seen a pic of Saxifraga apiculata that looks very much like one of your plants.

You could try Googling this one, but I think it's a cultivated plant.

I think we are getting closer . The leaf rosettes seem to be very similar at least.

[Binocularface]

Originally Posted by Binocularface

I think we are getting closer . The leaf rosettes seem to be very similar at least.

It seems that the Saxifrage is Saxifraga paniculata!

[djackso]

Ahh - I didn't have a picture of that one - thanks for the info!!

So you are just left with the leaf to id?

[Binocularface]

Originally Posted by djackso

Ahh - I didn't have a picture of that one - thanks for the info!!

So you are just left with the leaf to id?

Pretty much so, the leaves appear to be diognostic. Looking through Stace there are aspects of the flower that helps narrow it down to a few species.

For example:

a) Petals white to cream
b) Flowers actinomorphic
c) Ovary partly inferior (sepals arising from its side or top)
d) Leaves all in basal rosette

These three couplets narrows identification down to Saxifraga paniculata or Saxifraga nivalis. The actual structure of the leaves clinch the identification.

[djackso]

Originally Posted by Binocularface

Pretty much so, the leaves appear to be diognostic. Looking through Stace there are aspects of the flower that helps narrow it down to a few species.

For example:

a) Petals white to cream
b) Flowers actinomorphic
c) Ovary partly inferior (sepals arising from its side or top)
d) Leaves all in basal rosette

These three couplets narrows identification down to Saxifraga paniculata or Saxifraga nivalis. The actual structure of the leaves clinch the identification.

Thanks for that.

You have just one more to id - a leaf growing next to a stream?

[Binocularface]

Originally Posted by djackso

Thanks for that.

You have just one more to id - a leaf growing next to a stream?

Which is a perfect example of why I should pay more attention - It looks more like an umbellifer species than a fern on hindsight!