What Winter FLowers Have You Seen? (1 Viewer)

LizandDave · Jan 12, 2014

Great list! It will inspire me to look harder. I did find Sticky Groundsel in flower yesterday in the shingle of Rye Harbour nature reserve. That was it apart from some daisies. Plenty of tiny new growth showing for stoneworts, horned poppies etc.
Snowdrop from my previous posting. Sticky Groundsel over exposed sorry!

I have spent most of my time of late in woodlands looking for fungi, so no doubt miss a lot of flowers in the usual non woody places.
Dave

IJS · Jan 12, 2014

LizandDave said:
Great list! It will inspire me to look harder. I did find Sticky Groundsel in flower yesterday in the shingle of Rye Harbour nature reserve. That was it apart from some daisies. Plenty of tiny new growth showing for stoneworts, horned poppies etc.
Snowdrop from my previous posting. Sticky Groundsel over exposed sorry!

I have spent most of my time of late in woodlands looking for fungi, so no doubt miss a lot of flowers in the usual non woody places.
Dave

I did hear that two places (Cardiff being one) had upto 66 species in flower, almost double the number I found. I should point out that many plants just have the odd flower on straggly, old plants. Winter species, snowdrops, winter aconites, etc, are looking good round here now though.

LizandDave · Jan 14, 2014

Found a single Herb Robert in flower today in local woods. I also found a good sized colony of Ivy Broomrape (obviously gone over) so will be a good place for it in a few months time.
Dave

Aya.bun · Jan 15, 2014

I love to see Lesser Celandine, it makes me think that winter is over. Saw some today in flower, near Preston.

IJS · Jan 19, 2014

Spotted a few more plants flowering around Norwich:

Yarrow
White Campion
Gorse
Hogweed

There are some grasses flowering too but am rubbish at ids for them!

IJS · Jan 19, 2014

Probably worth mentioning that the Botanical society have re-analysed their results and show the majority of plants in flower are hangovers from the autumn. Few real spring flowering plants are actually in flower as yet. Wont be long though...

See: BSBI publicity blog

LizandDave · Jan 22, 2014

I agree, many are last year's plants still with an occasional flower. however, I found a patch of Herb Robert yesterday that were all new growth, so not all are last year's.
I have a photo of some other plant "flowering" but dont know what it is, I will post a photo soon.
Dave

LizandDave · Jan 22, 2014

OK here we go, I can't ID this plant which is in flower, it is new growth and not from last Autumn. Any ideas?
It was growing in a damp place in woodland amongst moss and there were a lot of them!
Dave

Rubia · Jan 22, 2014

It's a early bit of Mercury coming up in the mild weather.

LizandDave · Jan 22, 2014

Thanks for that, would that be Annual Mercury or Dog Mercury?
I found a load more coming up in another wood today and bluebells about 2" tall.
Dave

LizandDave · Jan 22, 2014

I found several Butcher's Broom plants today in a woodland edge. Some still had berries on (see photo) but all had tiny flower buds, so barring a cold snap these will be in flower very soon.
Dave

Rubia · Jan 22, 2014

Woof. Woof.
M. perennis

LizandDave · Jan 25, 2014

Thanks Rubia. I'll check them soon to see if the flowers are now fully open.

Not much else in North Kent, so I went to West Hythe today on the Royal Military Canal on the Romney Marsh, a coastal area of Kent, where I found, Sweet Violets, Winter Heliotrope and a single Lesser Periwinkle.
Images in the gallery. Nice to see new flowers.
Dave

Xenospiza · Jan 26, 2014

Had the following along the river Rhine today.
- Shepherd's Purse
- Annual Mercury
- Red Deadnettle
- Common Field-speedwell
- Yarrow
- Scentless Mayweed
- Daisy
- Smooth Hawk's-beard
And a real surprise:
- Gallant Soldier (this tends to wither after the first frosts)

I only live 30 km to the east and 20 metres higher up, but have failed to find anything in flower around my home thusfar!

LizandDave · Jan 27, 2014

Good find!
Today, I found a Hawkweed, Dandelion*, Scentless Mayweed, Common Speedwell*, Spurge Laurel*, Cow Parsley*, Red Dead Nettle*, White Dead Nettle, Common Ragwort and Vipers Bugloss in flower. Also a pinkish scabious like plant* I can't ID which I have put in the plant forum for ID (last photo)
Those with a * are new growth plants.
Dave

LizandDave · Feb 2, 2014

Folkestone Leas coastal park provided:
Cyclamen
Winter heliotrope
CorsicanHellebore, image in gallery
Bristly Oxtongue
Dandelion
A Hawksbeard probably smooth
Primroses, not wild
Daisy
Dave

rogpow · Feb 2, 2014

Winter Heliotrope
Lesser Celandine
Common Whitlowgrass
Germander Speedwell
Crocus
Dandelion
Snowdrops
Primroses
Daisy

All in flower this afternoon on the Isle of Wight.

Rog

dantheman · Feb 5, 2014

Been seeing these out for a few weeks now - in marshy areas and also next to a muddy track.

???

rogpow · Feb 5, 2014

dantheman said:
Been seeing these out for a few weeks now - in marshy areas and also next to a muddy track.

???

Winter Heliotrope.

Rog

dantheman · Feb 5, 2014

Cheers!

Guess it's meant to be flowering now then (it's got winter in it's name). Shame it's an invasive alien.

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