A mixture for confirmation and identifications please

[Johnny81]

Me again, sorry posting a lot on here, but getting out a lot and there is nothing like enhancing ones natural history skills. All Northampton on outskirts of mixed woodland.

1.Straggly plant on a arable margin, looks like a really long chickweed. No flowers open

2. Heath wood rush? Situated on a mixed woodland edge with some heath speedwell.

3. Confirm Parsley-piert

4. If possible to get an ID of this, no cones on tree - grand fir? Looks to blunt for sitka spruce too me, I am only so-so on conifers.

Many thanks

[Dorts]

1. Poss. Water Chickweed - Myosoton aquaticum. (some flowers would help).
2. Poss. Heath Woodrush - Luzula multiflora. if the leaves and flowers are the same plant, though rather more sparsley-flowered than normal . (Should consider Good-Friday Grass - Luzula campestris.)
3. Parsley Piert - Aphanes arvensis.
4. Not Sitka, as you say, 'needles too blunt'. Probably one of the Abies, (Furs).
Dorts.

[Johnny81]

Thanks Dorts, the rush and leaf are the same plant. Luzula campestris was considered but my book states dry grassland - especially calc soils, so I wasn't sure. Another pic if it helps.


The 1st plant (potential water chickweed) growth form was very prostrate, and there was a great deal of it in the corner of a field. Other species in the same patch were parsley piert and lots of field pansy.

[Dorts]

Luzula campestris is not too fussy over soils. It has been recorded in almost every hectad in Britain!

Water Chickweed is not uncommon in you area, and is a 'straggly' plant, but it could also be another similar species.
Dorts.

[Johnny81]

Cheers, I will go back and re-check plant one in a week or so