ID please for Umbellifer

Harold Smith · #1 (**permalink**) 04-09-2011, 03:25 PM

Took these photgraphs in mid July. They are growing in the bed and banks of a disused canal at Coombe Hill, Gloucestershire.

Can anyone please tell me what it is. The nearest I can get to it from my field guide is Fine-Leaved Water Dropwort.

Harold.

Dorts · #2 (**permalink**) 04-09-2011, 04:30 PM

Yes, it certainly looks like Fine-leaved Water-dropwort - Oenanthe aquatica. Not at all common, except in the East of England and on the Welsh borders, including Gloucestershire.
It seems quite at home in the canal there!

Strangely it's Corky-fruited Water-dropwort - Oenanthe pimpinelloides that features in the SSSI report for Coombe Hill, but that tends not to like standing water.
Dorts.

Harold Smith · #3 (**permalink**) 05-09-2011, 02:34 PM

Thanks for your reply Dorts and confirming it being Fine Leaved Water Dropwort.

I had already dismissed Corky Fruited Water Dropwort as I am quite familiar with it. There is quite a large population of Corky Fruited in the Hucclecote Hay Meadows SSSI, a reserve I was involved in many years ago and still visit now and again as it is a 15 minute walk from where I live.

Thanks again.

Harold.