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25-03-2009, 02:44 PM
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| |  Carpet of Leaves ID
These leaves are everywhere in my local woods. I was just wondering what they are because I see them every year but they never flower. I have never seen them in any other habitat apart from woodland and have only ever seen them beneath trees.   |
25-03-2009, 02:57 PM
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Ditto    
I've no idea either 
One of the reasons why I've sent for "The Vegetative Key to the British Flora". Maybe when that arrives, I'll be in with a chance of ID'ing things like this - but then again 
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25-03-2009, 02:58 PM
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It's not a kind of lily is it? I was thinking Adders Tongue - but remember I'm new to plants |
25-03-2009, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Jason Green  It's not a kind of lily is it? I was thinking Adders Tongue - but remember I'm new to plants | Not either sorry Jason. I can see where you were coming from with Adder's Tongue Fern though. - I wish it was.
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25-03-2009, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Jason Green It's not a kind of lily is it? I was thinking Adders Tongue - but remember I'm new to plants | I haven't actually seen it flower ever!  So it must be some sort of vegetative as Mike sais  |
25-03-2009, 05:08 PM
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| | | Re: Carpet of Leaves ID
Looks rather like Bistort (Persicaria bistorta) to me |
26-03-2009, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Tiggrx Looks rather like Bistort (Persicaria bistorta) to me | oh wow. thanks Tiggrx. I remember there being bistort in those woods, I just never followed it up |
26-03-2009, 04:35 PM
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| | | Re: Carpet of Leaves ID
my first impression was Dock. It looks just like the Broad Leaf Dock that is coming up a treat all over my allotment at the moment. Same sort of arrangement of the emerging leaf against the one already out. Not familiar with what the first stages of growth of Bistort look like, so can't comment on that, but would agree that at least we're looking in the Polygonaceae.
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26-03-2009, 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Tiggrx Looks rather like Bistort.... | Quote:
Originally Posted by svenrufus my first impression was Dock.... | My "jury" is still out, although from image search results, (and given the locations where my photo's came from), it could very possibly be either of these great suggestions.
Curiosity kindled, I intend to keep my eye on these, along with a few other as yet unidentified leaf growths, over the next few weeks/months, to see what eventually results.
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26-03-2009, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Lancashire Lad My "jury" is still out, although from image search results, (and given the locations where my photo's came from), it could very possibly be either of these great suggestions.
Curiosity kindled, I intend to keep my eye on these, along with a few other as yet unidentified leaf growths, over the next few weeks/months, to see what eventually results.
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Mike. | Hi Mike
Bistort has a spreading rhizome hence the large patches of plants in the photos, Docks tend to have tap roots or at best, rhizomes that do not spread far and hence to remain as "single" clumps. Hence it has to be Bistort. At least that is what I think.
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