1-7 plants for ID please

[Paul in Dawlish]

We've been out on some super walks over the last few days and I've got a small library of plants that I need help with! Here's the first 7. All plants found walking along the Exe estuary (tidal) to a pub called Turf Locks. Terrific place if you are ever in the Dawlish/Exeter part of the world! I've tried my hand at some, but it's often where to start looking in the books!

1. Really no idea. Found growing close to the water's edge.



2. A vetch of some kind? It looks like the pea family?



3. I think this is hoary cress. Cardaria draba



4. Looks like another cress?



5. Only the leaves I'm afraid, which are so distinctive, but I don't know where to start looking. Found very close to the water's edge.



6. Another cress? this one was low-growing, spreading into large patches on the silt. Its roots would have been almost in the water at high tide.



7. Not a clue. It was growing in large patches, very close to the water's edge. Roots almost in the water at high tide.



Any help gratefully accepted. Next set later today!

[Adam Cheeseman]

1 Buttercup sp. possibly Celery-leaved
2 Bittersweet
3 Hoary Cress
4 -
5 Bristly Ox-tongue
6 -
7 -

Without checking my books.


Cheers,

Adam

[Paul in Dawlish]

At least I got No. 3 right!

Thanks Adam. The Bristly Ox-Tongue is an easily recognisable one and one which I should be able to identify again! The leaves are so distinctive. Thanks for the Bittersweet; I'd no idea to look for a nightshade. Are you sure about the celery leaved buttercup? The leaves seem too succulent, but I may well be wrong!

[treecreeper]

The last one is sea arrowgrass, Triglochin maritimum

[Paul in Dawlish]

Originally Posted by treecreeper

The last one is sea arrowgrass, Triglochin maritimum

Ah, TY!

[Gypsy Orchid]

I is definately Celery-leaved buttercup I have seen it growing in wet patches of the fields near Turf Locks. The seed heads are quite distinct
Sylv

[KeenTeen17]

6 is common scurvy grass

[Paul in Dawlish]

Thanks Gypsy Orchid for confirming celery buttercup and for Common Scurvygrass KT. Both new to me!

Number 4 anyone? The photo isn't great I know!

[Gerel]

Number 4 looks cabbage family to me, Wintercress maybe ?

[Paul in Dawlish]

Originally Posted by Gerel

Number 4 looks cabbage family to me, Wintercress maybe ?

Could be Gerel. I wish I'd got a better piccie of the leaves!