ID help please for these 3

[pammosley]

Hi everyone, can anyone help me with these 3 please.
This was on urban waste ground alongside Lupins & Evening Primroses. Any ideas? Is it an escapee? The leaves look like Toadflax leaves, flowers obviously completely different!





This one was on the same site as the first.





This last one was along side of the canal/railway line.
I`m going to have to get to grips with dandelion like flowers sooner or later





Thanks for taking the time to look

[davidbr]

The first one is indeed a toadflax - Purple Toadflax, Linaria purpurea, a very colourful garden escape that springs up on waste ground, railway lines, lanes, cemeteries... just about everywhere, really Usually it's purple, like yours, but I have occasionally seen plants with pink and even white flowers.

No. 2 is Marjoram (Origanum vulgare); it's not uncommon as a native, but it's also widely grown as a culinary herb so when I see it these days it's 90% of the time an escape.

No. 3 is Smooth Sow-thistle (Sonchus oleraceus); a common weed and quite a distinctive one when you get used to it, but with these yellow daisy thingies you really need a clear shot of the leaves as well as the flowers. The blooms are generally pretty similar and not always a lot of help with identification, as I've found before now to my cost when left with a load of very pretty photos with no way to tell what they are

[pammosley]

Thats great David, thanks for your help
This means however that I may have ID`ed this one wrong I thought that this was Perenial sow thistle, is it?





Many thanks. You can blame my hubby for these, he insisted I took a photo & try & ID them

[davidbr]

No, you're spot on

Perennial Sow-thistle, Sonchus arvensis. That's the great thing about photographing plants; you can always go back and have another look if you get a twinge of doubt

[pammosley]

Yahoo!!!!! I`m very pleased with myself Thank you so much for looking David, you`ve boosted my confidence