Bournemouth Cliffs, January

[DavidJO]

Sorry, rather late with posting these!
After a hard winter you'd think everything would be pretty dead, but not Bournemouth Cliffs on the 20th of January. A family of foxes were rushing around, and closer inspection showed an amazing variety of plant life for the time of year. Here are a few pics - Butterbur was in full flower, the sea aster still hanging on in there, and two I'm not so sure of - I've got one down provisionally as Winter Aconite and the other as Oxford Ragwort. Comments on these?

[aeshna5]

I'm afraid you've got your first two ID's wrong. Both are naturalised aliens.

1 is a close Butterbur relative, Winter Heliotrope, Petasites fragrans, which normally fowers at the turn of the year.

2 is the Seaside Daisy, Erigeron glaucus.

3 can't see enough detail, but not aWinter Aconite; it's a rosaceous plant like a Potentilla, Dechusnea or similar genus. Any more photos showing leaves

4 Yes, Oxford Ragwort, Senecio squalidus

[DavidJO]

Thanks for putting me right!