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31-10-2010, 01:48 PM
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| | | Help needed with plant ID
I took this photo a couple of weeks ago and have been trying to identify what it is ever since. I thought it could be a type of Hawksbeard but there are so many....  |
31-10-2010, 01:54 PM
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| |  Re: Help needed with plant ID
Always useful to include more than a flower head to assist ID- some foliage, etc.
This looks like Bristly Ox-tongue, Helminthotheca (Picris) echioides, to me from the bracts around the flower head. |
31-10-2010, 02:33 PM
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| | | Re: Help needed with plant ID
I know, sorry, I usually do but for some reason this time I didn't. 
Thanks for your help, after looking up Bristly Ox-Tongue, it does look very similar. I did think it might be a Sowthistle at one point, but they look a bit too bristly now after looking at the Ox-Tongue. |
31-10-2010, 07:39 PM
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| | | Re: Help needed with plant ID
Would like to see leaves, but this could be Rough Hawksbeard.
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01-11-2010, 08:11 AM
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| | | Re: Help needed with plant ID
I doubt it is bristly ox-tongue for the simple reason that its bumps and bristles are so obvious that I doubt Taryn would have missed them. I remember when I first id'd it it left an impression.
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01-11-2010, 09:26 AM
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| | | Re: Help needed with plant ID
It is Bristly Oxtongue - Picris echiodes as aeshna5 has suggested.
There are no others with swollen bases to the bristles and bristly leaf-like bracts so close to the flower.
Rough Hawksbeard, now quite uncommon, has clusters of flowers on branched stems with no bristly bracts.
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