Flower of the day

Jez · #**676** (**permalink**) 30-05-2009, 12:25 PM

Mine is common Figwort. All the times of walking down the lane into Beaulieu (beautiful) now known as Bewdley I've never come across it before and I'm finding it all over!

leifus · #**677** (**permalink**) 30-05-2009, 01:34 PM

Over two days in Purbeck I found these (sorry no photos

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heath groundsel
common-ramping fumitory
pirri-pirri-bur
sea bindweed
southern marsh orchid
changing fmn
birdsfoot clover
pale flax
birdsfoot
hairy birdsfoot trefoil
rough clover
narrow-leaved pepperwort
celery-leaved buttercup
stinking chamomile
bugloss
corn spurrey
common star-of-bethlehem
pale persicaria
burnet rose
heath pearlwort
my favourite flower the BEE ORCHID

that I accidentally stumbled across

hairy rock-cress
swine-cress
lesser swine-cress
hairy buttercup

leifus · #**678** (**permalink**) 30-05-2009, 01:36 PM

And four days in Wales provided 120 species of wildflower, the best of which were...

lesser-sea spurrey
rock sea spurrey
corn spurrey
birdsfoot
birdsfoot clover
common-ramping fumitory
tree mallow
sun spurge

as well as all the common cliffside species

treecreeper · #**679** (**permalink**) 30-05-2009, 07:02 PM

This only deserves inclusion because of where I found it...in the middle of Birkenhead on an abandoned industrial railway track.

It's Orobanche alba. It was a few minute's walk from Prostitute Street (known to the Post Office as Corporation Road) and the smackheads' haunts. It's a good botanical area. Common spotted orchid should be there soon. I'm hoping for bee orchid, which has spread on the Wirral in recent years.

leifus · #**680** (**permalink**) 30-05-2009, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by treecreeper

This only deserves inclusion because of where I found it...in the middle of Birkenhead on an abandoned industrial railway track.

It's Orobanche alba. It was a few minute's walk from Prostitute Street (known to the Post Office as Corporation Road) and the smackheads' haunts. It's a good botanical area. Common spotted orchid should be there soon. I'm hoping for bee orchid, which has spread on the Wirral in recent years.

great find!

Deer Stalker · #**681** (**permalink**) 30-05-2009, 08:54 PM

Marsh Clubmoss on the New Forest this morning. Found some more Pale Butterwort & Hampshire Purslane later on.

IanS · #**682** (**permalink**) 30-05-2009, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by treecreeper

This only deserves inclusion because of where I found it...in the middle of Birkenhead on an abandoned industrial railway track.

It's Orobanche alba. It was a few minute's walk from Prostitute Street (known to the Post Office as Corporation Road) and the smackheads' haunts. It's a good botanical area. Common spotted orchid should be there soon. I'm hoping for bee orchid, which has spread on the Wirral in recent years.

seconded, great find!

IanS · #**683** (**permalink**) 30-05-2009, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Deer Stalker

Marsh Clubmoss on the New Forest this morning. Found some more Pale Butterwort & Hampshire Purslane later on.

I was wondering what this plant look like!

treecreeper · #**684** (**permalink**) 30-05-2009, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by leifus

great find!

Aagh! It's not a great find! It's a typo for orobanche minor! Sorry everyone!

Tiggrx · #**685** (**permalink**) 31-05-2009, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by treecreeper

Aagh! It's not a great find! It's a typo for orobanche minor! Sorry everyone!

I was wondering but was gonna check in a book before contradicting you

Pete Collins · #**686** (**permalink**) 31-05-2009, 12:08 PM

My first Yellow Rattle of the year at Ivinghoe Beacon. I saw just one Common Spotted Orchid there, soon there'll be hundreds.

And I saw Grass Vetchling again, at the golf course at Aldbury - the first and only place I'd ever seen it until a few days ago.

Lots of Sanicle and Bugle about too.

Deer Stalker · #**687** (**permalink**) 31-05-2009, 03:36 PM

On the New Forest today - Early Gentians.........

.......& xexexexexexexe Balm.

IanS · #**688** (**permalink**) 31-05-2009, 09:21 PM

Great shots of the gentians! Not one I have come across - yet!

blacknest · #**689** (**permalink**) 31-05-2009, 10:43 PM

Lesser stitchwort on one of the less frequented grassy rides in Alice Holt Forest (The greater is almost over now)
And sticky mouse ear too on the gravel path edges

Pete Collins · #**690** (**permalink**) 01-06-2009, 02:41 PM

My first ever White Helleborine (at least I think that's what it is!). I'd seen the leaves before (in the same location near Dunstable) but not seen it flowering.

Saw my first poppies, foxgloves and bladder campion of the year too.

KeenTeen17 · #**691** (**permalink**) 01-06-2009, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Pete Collins

My first ever White Helleborine (at least I think that's what it is!). I'd seen the leaves before (in the same location near Dunstable) but not seen it flowering.

Saw my first poppies, foxgloves and bladder campion of the year too.

Very nice Pete. Its one we don't get up here unfortunately and its how Leifus has gotten ahead on the orchid count. It is indeed the White Helleborine because of the small number of flowers and the shape of the leaves. Sword Leaved Helleborine has much narrower leaves as the name implies

Pete Collins · #**692** (**permalink**) 01-06-2009, 03:15 PM

Thanks KeenTeen17. It was right next to a very popular footpath, so I could hardly miss it. Somebody had told me a few weeks ago that it grew at a location just a few hundred yards from where I saw it.

Adam Cheeseman · #**693** (**permalink**) 01-06-2009, 03:58 PM

Cornflower for me today. My cornfield mix is just starting to bloom

Trouble is the rabbits have now taken a liking to it

Cheers,

Adam

blacknest · #**694** (**permalink**) 01-06-2009, 09:02 PM

Ox-eye daises are making a lovely show on the verges:
I was always under the impression Leucanthemum vulgare was a non-native...which intrigued me as they're so widespread all across the countryside and look so "at home" here...lo & behold I check the book and they're as native a part of the Briitsh scene as warm beer, The Beatles or expense-fiddling MPs.

It's the giant flowered "Shasta Daisy" (L.maximum) such as I have in my herbaceous border which is sometimes seen growing feral

leifus · #**695** (**permalink**) 03-06-2009, 07:42 PM

goat's-beard and yarrow for me today

leifus · #**696** (**permalink**) 04-06-2009, 08:00 PM

small toadflax and equal-leaved knotgrass

both on my local patch

blacknest · #**697** (**permalink**) 05-06-2009, 11:27 AM

My ordinary garden water lillies are out

leifus · #**698** (**permalink**) 05-06-2009, 04:17 PM

a melilot (either ribbed or tall), welted thistle...

and I went to a site that had three fly orchids in 2003. However no one has recorded there since and there are now over 50 (!!!!) making it the largest population in wiltshire