More flowers for I.D.

[Treehawk]

Found all of these at Shatterford today:

Forget-me-not family:


Eyebright; My book shows two species: Euphrasia nemorosa and E. micrantha, but I am not sure how to tell them apart.

White flowers:




Wild or escaped Pansy?


And this flower

I think thats all of them...

[Cheryl]

I think the first of the white flowers is Fairy Flax Linium catharticum

[Tiggrx]

1. Field Forget-me-not (Myosotis arvensis)
2. there are several species of Eyebright - hard to ID
3. Fairy Flax (Linum catharticum)
4. Heath Pearlwort (Sagina subulata)
6. Wild Pansy (Viola tricolor) - hard to tell if truly wild or a garden escape
7. Wood Sage (Teucrium scorodonia)

[Treehawk]

Thanks for the I.D.s both of you.

[AlanS]

Originally Posted by Treehawk

Eyebright; My book shows two species: Euphrasia nemorosa and E. micrantha, but I am not sure how to tell them apart.

Sadly, that makes your book approximately 19 Euphrasia species short.

However, your photograph does show either E. micrantha or a hybrid of it. The flower shape is suggestive of the influence of one of the larger-flowered species, quite possibly E. nemorosa in fact, but I am not going to be definite about it being that hybrid.

Tiggrx has done the rest, but missed out one of the pearlworts. Below the photograph of S. subulata is Mossy Pearlwort, Sagina procumbens.


Alan
(BSBI Euphrasia referee)

[Treehawk]

I thought identifying all the moth species in Britain was hard, but the wildflowers seem endless! I need a bigger book I think.