Wild flowers

[bagpuss]

It just shows how much more advanced the season is further south. I don't think any of those flowers are about in northern Lancs right now? In fact, we seem to have gone back into reverse - it's been bloody cold today after temperatures in the twenties centigrade recently.

Opposite here, warm and humid today, T Shirt weather outside of the wind. Saw more butterflies and increase in insects today, almost too many bugs whilst trying to eat lunch!

 

[MarkS]

Outhwaite Woods this morning with Pegasus and Badlad. Never seen so many bluebells!

 

[Lankyman]

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Outhwaite Woods this morning with Pegasus and Badlad. Never seen so many bluebells!

It's nice round there. I'm hoping to see a few bluebells tomorrow. Now, back to the fence painting

 

[Pegasus]

Outhwaite woods were glorious

Bugle in foreground

 

[Pegasus]

 

[bagpuss]

Longwood Swallet surrounded by wild garlic, Mendip

Bugle and Harts Tongue fern, Ubley Warren nature reserve

 

[georgenorth]

Primula farinosa - Eastern Dales today.

 

[hannahb]

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Primula farinosa - Eastern Dales today.

Love these. Only seen them in one place.

 

[Lankyman]

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Primula farinosa - Eastern Dales today.

I've seen these (aka bird's-eye primrose) growing on the calcareous soil next to Hawes Water (not to be confused with Haweswater in the Lakes) near Silverdale. There's a board walk now so you don't tread on them.

 

[georgenorth]

Love these. Only seen them in one place.

Yes - a really nice surprise whilst out looking for caves today. It took me quite a while to remember what they are!

 

[langcliffe]

I've seen these (aka bird's-eye primrose) growing on the calcareous soil next to Hawes Water (not to be confused with Haweswater in the Lakes) near Silverdale. There's a board walk now so you don't tread on them.

There's a good population on the way up the Monks Road in Littondale, and also in Bastow Wood, Grassington.

 

[Lankyman]

Bird's-foot trefoil and beach rose (I think) on the shingle at Morecambe today. Sunny but cool and the Lakes fells in clear view beyond the Stone Jetty.

 

[Mr Dinwiddy]

I've walked through many limestone woods on the edge of Morecambe Bay and never knowingly seen this.

I looked up what it says about herb Paris in Geoffrey Hallidays Flora of Cumbria. He says it is not uncommon in limestone woods in south westmorland. "Not uncommon" might need translation- I think that means its not common but also not rare enough to be called uncommon !
Herb Paris is reaching its northern limit in Cumbria and is far more frequent in the south and west. its thought to be continuing to decline and one of its problems is that it doesn't disperse very well. It has a big (poisonous) berry as a fruit so won't disperse far, unlike say birch or willow that blows seed in the wind.

 

[Mr Dinwiddy]

Bird's-foot trefoil and beach rose (I think) on the shingle at Morecambe today. Sunny but cool and the Lakes fells in clear view beyond the Stone Jetty.View attachment 26064View attachment 26065

I think that you are right that its beach rose - Rosa rugosa see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_rugosa
Its considered an invasive non native species in Europe and it can take over shingle and dunes.
If there are some good beach botanists here, then there is a spurge species in your rose photo too. I am not sure which one though.

 

[Pegasus]

Fab walk in Langstrothdale yesterday

 

[Lankyman]

I think that you are right that its beach rose - Rosa rugosa see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_rugosa
Its considered an invasive non native species in Europe and it can take over shingle and dunes.
If there are some good beach botanists here, then there is a spurge species in your rose photo too. I am not sure which one though.

My first thought was dog rose when I spotted it on the shore. It was only after I looked it up that I thought it was the beach rose (seemed to fit the location!). It had a lovely smell. There were a few other things sprouting there that I don't know what they are.

 

[alanw]

Wild garlic and some bluebells on the way up to Gaping Gill to get my tent up ready a day early

 

[Lankyman]

Bluebells are still plentiful in the Lancashire woods but looking like they'll be on the way out soon. Also saw the rare local top predator lynx lancastriensis

 

[Jim MacPherson]

Is that the gillowiensis? sub-species, I'm even poorer at fauna identification than I am at flora.

Jim

 

[Lankyman]

Is that the gillowiensis? sub-species, I'm even poorer at fauna identification than I am at flora.

Jim

Hard to tell at this distance - might be the plasticiensis?