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Northumberland flowers ID (1 Viewer)
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Nutcracker
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Yes, it is a word you can use; for accuracy, it's a cultivar, Phalaris arundinacea 'Picta', not a botanical variety :t:
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Bit of root stuck to mud on someone's boots, would be my guess. Or someone fly-tipping some garden rubbish (it's amazing how far out of their way people will go to dump stuff illegally!).
lazza
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Well, another weekend, another disrupted cycle ride or two (it's quite tiring screeching to a halt every few hundred yards to take another photo of the grass verge....), another batch of unknowns!
Firstly, a couple from the coast, Snab Point near Cresswell, to be precise.
The first one - I haven't a clue. There were several small patches of these delicate pink flowers with hairy leaves. Should be easy to identify, I'm sure, but I can't find anything close in my guide.
And second, another umbellifera, which I think I should also know, but can't seem to get quite right. Could be yarrow, but the single flower heads are confusing me.
And then a third from Druridge Bay, which I am pretty sure is Monk's Hood, but the distribution maps don't seem to put it this far north....
Firstly, a couple from the coast, Snab Point near Cresswell, to be precise.
The first one - I haven't a clue. There were several small patches of these delicate pink flowers with hairy leaves. Should be easy to identify, I'm sure, but I can't find anything close in my guide.
And second, another umbellifera, which I think I should also know, but can't seem to get quite right. Could be yarrow, but the single flower heads are confusing me.
And then a third from Druridge Bay, which I am pretty sure is Monk's Hood, but the distribution maps don't seem to put it this far north....
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Nutcracker
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#1 - Common Restharrow Ononis repens.
#2 - not an umbellifer at all
yes, it's a Yarrow Achillea millefolium (daisy family).
#3 - yep, Monk's-hood Aconitum napellus. Not native up here, an infrequent garden escape.
#2 - not an umbellifer at all
yes, it's a Yarrow Achillea millefolium (daisy family).#3 - yep, Monk's-hood Aconitum napellus. Not native up here, an infrequent garden escape.
lazza
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#2 - not an umbellifer at all
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So, some more from this last weekend....
The first one is (hopefully!) another umbellifera species, and I think is possible upright hedge parsley...
Then a purple flower spike which I am fairly confident is Hedge Woundwort, but it seems there could be other similar species
Next, a couple of shots of a bright pink small flower with distinctive red foliage - not a clue!
And finally, a rather out-of-focus shot of a yellow flower which could be nipplewort (and could just as easily be unidentifiable!)
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lazza
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Thanks. Rough chervil looks a good call. I've another photo of the stems which are purplish red and slightly hairy, which seems to be right.
How certain are you on red campion? The flowers were tiny and the foliage red all over, and not like any red campion I've seen (in all my...err... weeks of wildflower identification!)
lazza
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Watch out for this one, the sap can cause photosensitive rash / skin burns on some people :t:
lazza
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Next!
So, I've identified these lovely clusters of yellow flowers as Lady's Bedstraw, and at the time I thought the other yellow flowers were Common Bird's-foot Trefoil, but on second thoughts, I am wondering if this could be Greater Bird's-foot Trefoil, as the flowers are quite tall...?
So, I've identified these lovely clusters of yellow flowers as Lady's Bedstraw, and at the time I thought the other yellow flowers were Common Bird's-foot Trefoil, but on second thoughts, I am wondering if this could be Greater Bird's-foot Trefoil, as the flowers are quite tall...?
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Nutcracker
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Could well be, it's frequent enough in Northumbs., but can't tell definitively from this small pic
