Some more ID help needed, Bristol aliens

[davidbr]

I'm 99% certain these are all garden escapes and, despite searching the Interactive Flora of NW Europe plus the online search engines, I've drawn a blank as to ID. Any help, however vague, would be greatly appreciated

1:



Smallish (c.1m high) shrub with white pea-like flowers, presumably some kind of Mediterranean shrubby vetch/broom. Photographed near a rail station, at a guess bird-sown

2:




Either a scabious or cornflower Centaurea sp., this one was growing out of the gutter of a suburban back lane.

3:



I've put this one on here before but nobody cracked it, a grey-leaved and strongly aromatic herb with a scent that struck me as not too dissimilar to Marjoram. May well be a simple garden throw-out as it was growing at the side of a lane right next to houses.

4:



Photographed at Clevedon, North Somerset on 21st July, growing out of the mulch that'd been spread around some fairly recent (a few years old) planted saplings on the inland side of the sea wall. My guess is that it's a species of squill, Scilla.

5:



Not a great picture but the light was poor and I was standing dangerously close to a main road (!), this one's a bushy Hypericum but with flowers noticeably smaller than the common shrub tutsans, H.x.inodorum & H.hircinum. Possibly a relic of cultivation.

6:



Having never seen it, when I took this picture I'd assumed it'd turn out to be Elecampane Inula helenium. Doesn't match that, but still a good bet for some kind of Inula?

[Tiggrx]

1. Canary Clover - Dorycnium hirsutum
2. Definately a scabious - though I'm not sure which
3. Helichrysum petiolare?
4. Triteleia laxa
5. Not sure...
6. Possibly Inula hookeri?

[leifus]

1 almost looks like a garden version of kidney vetch...
2 If it is wild rather than a garden plant then i'd say small scabious but it does look like a garden escape
3
4 A close relative of clustered bellflower
5 A close relative of tutsan
6

[aeshna5]

Originally Posted by leifus

1 almost looks like a garden version of kidney vetch...
2 If it is wild rather than a garden plant then i'd say small scabious but it does look like a garden escape
3
4 A close relative of clustered bellflower
5 A close relative of tutsan
6

I think you'll find Tiggrx has 1 + 4 corrrectly ID'ed above. Despite it's appearance the Triteleia is a bulbous species totally unrelated to the Campanulas (bellflowers).

The scabious looks like a garden form sold as Butterfly Blue

5 is certainly a Hypericum species.

[davidbr]

1 & 4 are certainly as Tiggrx put forward, Dorycnium hirsutum Hairy Canary Clover (a native of the southern Mediterranean, apparently) and Triteleia laxa, common name on Google given as Ithureil's Spear. As for No.6, I went back to have another look at it this morning and it definitely matches Inula hookeri, so I'd say Tiggrx had three out of three there

I'd never heard of any of them and apart from T.laxa (listed for one site in SE England) they aren't on the BSBI database, so I could have been rooting around for ever trying to ID them on my own. Many thanks for the help, Tiggrx!

No.3, though, doesn't seem to be a helicrysum - I can't say I've any first-hand experience of the species but the plant in the picture was very strongly aromatic when the foliage was crushed, which doesn't seem to apply to H.petiolare.

[davidbr]

And since I had such a brilliant response to those, I thought I'd have a go at clearing one more from my Unidentified photo folder!

This one's, my guess, a type of goosefoot or orache, growing at the edge of a flowerbed in a suburban park. Again, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!