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Wild flowers

Around Compton Martin, Mendip, today

Compton Combe shelter
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Couldn't resist a photo of the sea of wild garlic in the valley
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Bush vetch (I think)
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Yellow archangel
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Had to look this one up, I think it's pignut
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A tree flower (horsechestnut) couldn't resist including this image because of the cool spider. Internet search suggests its a crab spider, possibly a flower crab..
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Around Compton Martin, Mendip, today

Compton Combe shelter
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Couldn't resist a photo of the sea of wild garlic in the valley
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Yellow archangel
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Had to look this one up, I think it's pignut
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A tree flower (horsechestnut) couldn't resist including this image because of the cool spider. Internet search suggests its a crab spider, possibly a flower crab..
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Fantastic spider - I don't think I've ever seen a white one.
 
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Outhwaite Woods this morning with Pegasus and Badlad. Never seen so many bluebells!
This inspired us to take a walk round Roeburndale (and the concessionary paths in Outhwaite Wood) today while the sun was out and before the bluebells and garlic fade. It's a bit higher up than where I live so still in peak condition.
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Wild garlic and bluebells together
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I picked a few garlic leaves for my sandwich. In pastureland above the woodland there are lousewort which I think are a nice looking flower with a lousy name.
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Elsewhere in a damp, wooded gill by a waterfall were the first wood sorrel I've seen this year. The leaves are edible with a kind of sour apple taste - one of the locals is having a go.
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If you've got bluebell woods nearby go soon as they'll be gone shortly (unless you're in Scotland).
 

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I've walked through many limestone woods on the edge of Morecambe Bay and never knowingly seen this.
It likes to hide itself in beds of Dogs Mercury - leaves are the same colour green. It’s around in various places on Ingleborough, incluing the walk up to Gaping Gill
 
looks too pink for Bush Vetch, which has dull purple flowers which fit nicely its scientific name Vicia sepium. But that might be my screen. If not Bush, try Common.

Horse chestnut flowers are stunners, aren’t they?
My call is with bush vetch. It has 4 or 5 flowers. Common vetch is really variable but only has 1 or 2 flowers per stem.
Never mind the identification though - if you zoom in you can see some yellow meadow ants and what looks like a metallic green spider having a mexican stand off. Fantastic photo Bagpus.
 
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