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06-09-2008, 04:06 PM
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| | | id's from the wiltshire downs :)
all growing on calcareous soil.
1 Spear mint?  
2 Twiggy mullein?  
3 Ragwort - probably common or hoary...  
4 Hawkweed oxtongue i think.   
5 greater knapweed? The leaf looked like it but the flower doesn't... 
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06-09-2008, 05:53 PM
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| | | Re: id's from the wiltshire downs :)
1) looks like spear mint
2) twiggy mullein
3) Hoary ragwort
4) (not good at yellow ones)
5) looks like common knapweed but looking at the photo - it looks like some outer rays have withered away - so it could be an older greater knapweed. |
06-09-2008, 06:57 PM
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Originally Posted by KeenTeen17  1) looks like spear mint
2) twiggy mullein
3) Hoary ragwort
4) (not good at yellow ones)
5) looks like common knapweed but looking at the photo - it looks like some outer rays have withered away - so it could be an older greater knapweed. | thanks pal 
really glad about twiggy mullein - rare down here
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06-09-2008, 07:13 PM
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| | | Re: id's from the wiltshire downs :)
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Originally Posted by leifus thanks pal
really glad about twiggy mullein - rare down here | And that's not it- looks like Dark Mullein, V. nigrum to me. Twiggy Mullein is rare away from Norfolk, where it's common around the Norwich area.
Agree with Spear Mint, Hoary Ragwort + Hawkweed Ox-tongue |
06-09-2008, 10:06 PM
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| | | Re: id's from the wiltshire downs :)
Twiggy is around here? Definitely not very common then as I am yet to find it. I did see a plant blur today that did look like it though. Sadly no time to stop to check it out - it was on the corner verge of an A road so it wouldn't be safe anyway! |
07-09-2008, 05:08 AM
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Originally Posted by IanS Twiggy is around here? Definitely not very common then as I am yet to find it. I did see a plant blur today that did look like it though. Sadly no time to stop to check it out - it was on the corner verge of an A road so it wouldn't be safe anyway! |
You're right Ian it is found in SW + looking in BSBI flora it has a wider distribution than I realised (160 10km squares between 1987-99)- a plant I'd always associated with Norfolk which is where I've regularly seen it; but the photo which isn't brilliant does look like V. nigrum to me, but good to have other opinions too! | | |
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