[ID] Narrow-leaved Weed Please!

Jason Green · #1 (**permalink**) 18-03-2009, 07:44 PM

Evening WAB'ers

I have a narrow-leaved weed for identification if you'll be so kind

18/3/09

Narrow-leaved...
...each 3-4ins long

The lower leaves are shorter but broader, found growing through a carpet of leaf-litter in the shade.

Any help appreciated!!

Thanks

Take care,

Jason

KeenTeen17 · #2 (**permalink**) 18-03-2009, 08:56 PM

I'll give it a try - looks like a Myosotis sp.

Jason Green · #3 (**permalink**) 18-03-2009, 08:59 PM

Thanks Jack, much appreciated!

JennyS · #4 (**permalink**) 18-03-2009, 11:47 PM

Hi Jason - this might be a help, due soon ......

The Vegetative Key to the British Flora

Jason Green · #5 (**permalink**) 18-03-2009, 11:54 PM

Ooh ooh, me wants one of them!

Thanks for that Jenny, sounds like a great book!!

Jennie · #6 (**permalink**) 19-03-2009, 12:58 AM

I have seen young dandelions with leaves like that - especially when having to strain towards the light.....?

Jason Green · #7 (**permalink**) 19-03-2009, 01:04 AM

Yes, the stretched teardrop thing! It was certainly in the shade, in fact there were no rays of light down there at all. It in fact grew through a carpet of leaf-litter - the leaves had actually stuck themselves together into a big crunchy mat around it! There was only this along with a species of willowherb growing nearby, that was presumably younger alongside.