Northumberland flowers ID (1 Viewer)

lazza · Jul 28, 2014

OK, I'm new to wild flowers having been bought a wild flower guide recently, so I'm pretty certain most of these are obvious, but there are a couple I'm struggling with, and I also would welcome confirmation on the others.

The first four, I think I've ID'd....

1. Yellow loosestrife
2. Red campion
3&4. Woodland nightshade/bittersweet
5. Common field speedwell

How am I doing?!

lazza · Jul 28, 2014

But then the next three I'm not sure about at all...

6. Seems to have a resemblance to Herb Robert in my book, but some variations
7. Not a clue
8. Possibly a wild strawberry?

aeshna5 · Jul 28, 2014

You're correct with first 5. Also 6 is Herb Robert.
7 is a willowherb + one of the species or hybrids (they regularly hybridise) with a club-shaped stigma. Photo not good enough for certain ID, but maybe Epilobium tetragonum.
Last is in strawberry family- it's Wood Avens, Geum urbanum

lazza · Jul 28, 2014

Excellent. Thanks very much.

LizandDave · Jul 28, 2014

Isn't no 1 a Dotted Loosestrife? Lysimachia punctata?
Dave

Nutcracker · Jul 29, 2014

LizandDave said:
Isn't no 1 a Dotted Loosestrife? Lysimachia punctata?
Dave

Yes :t:

A garden escape, several clumps at e.g. Druridge Pools.

lazza · Jul 30, 2014

Thanks. These were near the pond at County Hall in Morpeth.

lazza · Sep 4, 2014

OK, here are some more.... I clearly really need to work on my wild flowers, as I'm now struggling to identify anything!!

1. Cannot find anything looking like this, with these hairy leaves. The flower looks a bit pea like, but not confident...!

2. Some kind of vetch?

3. I think this could be Red Bartsia...?

4. The flowers look vaguely like the Bittersweet flowers in my earlier request, but otherwise looks rather different

5. A willowherb.... great willowherb?

Thanks again!

dunedin · Sep 4, 2014

Just a wild stab at these and hope I get something right, await the more knowledgeable

1 Meadow vetchling
2 Tufted vetch
3
4 Bittersweet
5 Greater willow herb

chris butterworth · Sep 4, 2014

1 is Kidney Vetch ( albeit a rather bald, few flowered head ). Glaucous leaves with the leaflets folded in on themselves, hairy sepals and distinctly leaf shaped bacts.
2 Agree with Tufted Vetch
3 Red Bartsia
4 Agree with Bittersweet
5 Agree with Great Willowherb

lazza · Sep 29, 2014

Right, another lot from this weekend.... first for a while, as I think I'm getting a bit better....!! Well, let's see, shall we....!

The first two were in the car park overlooking the beach at North Blyth.

1. a Mayweed, and because of the location, I'm going to go with Sea Mayweed....?
2. and 3. remind me of when my home-grown rocket goes to seed.... the leaves, flowers and seedpods look right, but the plant seemed much larger

Then two from Choppington woods, which I think are both nettles:

4. common hemp-nettle?
5. white dead-nettle?

aeshna5 · Sep 29, 2014

2/3 look like Perennial Wall Rocket, Diplotaxis tenuifolia which is sometimes sold as rocket
4 Red Dead Nettle, Lamium purpureum
5 Correct.

lazza · Oct 14, 2014

OK, yet another.... and one I have no clue about, although I'll probably kick myself.... have seen this in several local places this last couple of weeks, and I cannot find anything that looks like this at all in my wild flowers guide.

The flowers are quite strange, as they seem to be both pink and blue/purple on the same plant!

Nutcracker · Oct 14, 2014

lazza said:
OK, yet another.... and one I have no clue about, although I'll probably kick myself.... have seen this in several local places this last couple of weeks, and I cannot find anything that looks like this at all in my wild flowers guide.

The flowers are quite strange, as they seem to be both pink and blue/purple on the same plant!

Comfrey Symphytum.

aeshna5 · Oct 14, 2014

Nutcracker said:
Comfrey Symphytum.

Looks like Russian Comfrey, S. x uplandicum.

lazza · Oct 15, 2014

aeshna5 said:
Looks like Russian Comfrey, S. x uplandicum.

Thanks both!

It's listed under the "white flowers" section of my guide! No wonder I couldn't find it!!

lazza · Oct 22, 2014

OK, and another.... these lovely bright lilac flowers were on the dunes near Blyth at the weekend, growing in a single patch about 4m diameter.

I'm thinking Sea Aster.....but I'm uncertain because all the photos I can find have bright yellow centres...

Xenospiza · Oct 26, 2014

Correct. It's late in the year so it's almost gone over: there is still some yellow bottom right.
Compare to this one a bit earlier in the year: https://www.natuurmonumenten.nl/sit...ine_large/public/slideshow/zulte-zeeaster.jpg

lazza · Oct 31, 2014

Thanks. Really lovely - and unexpected - burst of colour in among the dunes.

Another couple from the north of the county, seen in Berwick last weekend.

I think the first is dove's-foot cranesbill, but the other is a complete mystery, although I realise the two photos are both pretty dreadful (it was very windy, and I was half way up a steep hill!)

aeshna5 · Oct 31, 2014

Agree with Dove'sfoot Cranesbill. The other flower is Common Mallow.

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