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Originally Posted by hollyhock  Urgent for project
here is a collection of unidentified plants.
need them Identified ASAP
many thanx |
I agree with Meta menardi and with Dan Salter. You want us to do all the work for you, but you provide no information about locality, habitat, or what the project is about. As one who supervises student projects, I would be pretty blunt with any student I caught using the good natured folk of an internet forum to do identification work the student should be doing for themself.
On the other hand, quite often I identify material for students whose main project is on something else but who need some backgound information on associated plants.
Anyhow, I shall play ...
1 and 2 are both 'umbellifers' - a familiy of plants (Apiaceae, formerly caled the Umbelliferae) in which the flowers are characteristically held in a head rather like an umbrella. The individual flowers are small, but together they form a platform that can support bumble bees, hoverflies and other quite heavy pollinating insects - including some nice beetles. They are not always easy to identify, but the fruits of each species are distinctive and so we can be positive about the identifications.
1.
Hogweed, Heracleum sphondylium. The large, disc-like fruits lacking conspicuous ridges are diagnostic. Rough grassland, wasteground, etc, very common.
2.
Wild Carrot, Daucus carota. Compact fruiting heads with the fruits covered with lines of long, hooked spines. Grassland and wasteground, common in many areas.
3.
Broad-leaved Dock, Rumex obtusifolius. A very common rough ground and wasteground species, recognisable in this instance by the shape of the old fruiting head ('inflorescence') even though we cannot see details of the fruits or leaves.
4. As Fauna has already said,
Fringed Waterlily (Nymphoides peltata). Local, mainly in the south, perhaps native in East Anglia but generally considered an introduction elsewhere.
5.
Redshank/Spotted Persicaria, Persicaria maculosa. (
Polygonum persicaria in older books.) A common annual weed of farmland, wasteground, river margins and the like. Can be quite variable, but this is typical material. I am afraid that the suggestion of
Persicaria bistorta, a patch-forming perennial, is incorrect (though close).
6.
Common Mallow, Malva sylvestris. Common (in the south) on wasteground. The plant in the photograph is not looking its best, but it is parasitised by a rust fungus,
Puccinia malvacearum.
7.
Broad-leaved Dock, Rumex obtusifolius, as above, very characteristic leaf.
Good luck with the project, but I trust that it wasn't just to get these plants named!
Alan S.
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