More Flower ID conformation/corection please

pammosley · #1 (**permalink**) 15-06-2009, 03:58 PM

These are the ones I`m struugling a bit (alot) more with!
All taken in Marsh/Scrub at Brandon Marsh, Coventry.
Thanks for taking the time to help me out. I know I`m a pain

These 2 are the same plant, I`m stuck!! It looks like it should be a willowherb?

This I can`t find either, an escape? It was the only one. Looks like a pink???

Mouse ear hawkweed

Marsh thistle

Birdsfoot trefoil ?

Looks like a Cranesbill, it`s only tiny. I think thats chickweed next to it & rabbit poo

This is a different plant but the flower looks the same. Cranesbil?

treecreeper · #2 (**permalink**) 15-06-2009, 04:26 PM

The top two are Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria

treecreeper · #3 (**permalink**) 15-06-2009, 04:27 PM

...and the last two are respectively Soft Cranesbill Geranium molle and cut-leaved cranesbill Geranium dissectum

treecreeper · #4 (**permalink**) 15-06-2009, 04:31 PM

...(sorry for doing everything in the wrong order) the one you have labelled mouse-ear hawkweed I suspect is Smooth Hawks-beard Crepis capillaris

KeenTeen17 · #5 (**permalink**) 15-06-2009, 04:34 PM

1,2 and 3 are Purple Loosestrife

4) Smooth Hawksbeard
5) Marsh Thistle
6) Birds foot trefoil
7) Dovesfoot Cranesbill and Common Mouse ear next to it
8) Cut Leaved cranesbill

pammosley · #6 (**permalink**) 15-06-2009, 04:34 PM

I`m very impressed tree creeper & KT

There must be loads of Cranesbills. Now I know what I`m looking at I can see that it`s purple loosestrife. I think I`ve been looking too hard

I don`t know what I would do without you all on here. All I`ve got to do now is try & remember all this. We are making our own plant/flower encyclopedia of all the ones we have seen. I have spent years going around saying`Isn`t that pretty` but never finding out what it was. I`m trying to put that right now.
Your help is much appreciated.

treecreeper · #7 (**permalink**) 15-06-2009, 05:40 PM

On no.7, the cranesbill, I mean the same plant as KT (i.e. Geranium molle) but he has put the correct English name. My misfiring neurones have generated a non-existent English name ('soft cranesbill') from molle meaning soft. Duh!