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01-07-2011, 07:30 PM
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| | | Flowers for id please
These photos aren't great (to say the least!) but I'd appreciate it if anyone does have any idea about them. Seen on our ramble at Kintra, Islay (quite peaty/sandy and damp). Thanks. Becky
This one has the teeniest white flowers and was growing in a sort of puddle. 
These two are the same plant   |
01-07-2011, 07:47 PM
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| | | Re: Flowers for id please
Number 2: Knotted Pearlwort for me, not 100% though.
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01-07-2011, 08:05 PM
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| | | Re: Flowers for id please
The first one might be Blinks, Montia fontana |
01-07-2011, 08:10 PM
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| | | Re: Flowers for id please
I'd say John and Treecreeper have got them both.
Blinks and Knotted Pearlwort looks good to me, both are happy on damp peaty/sandy soils.
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01-07-2011, 08:11 PM
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Never seen blinks before would you say it is relatively common in suitable habitats Dorts? Maybe something I have overlooked!
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01-07-2011, 08:44 PM
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| | | Re: Flowers for id please
Yes, it is common and widespread in suitable habitats as this distribution map shows. BSBI Maps Scheme: Hectad Map Blinks
It is very easily overlooked and some plants are tiny, (it is probably our smallest fowering land-plant.)  
This group of plants is not much larger than a fifty-pence piece!
There are a few subspecies which I have yet to familiarise myself with. It loves bare damp slightly acid soils.
Dorts.
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01-07-2011, 09:17 PM
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| | | Re: Flowers for id please
Thanks everyone. Both these species are new to me.
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