Wild flowers

[Mr Mike]

Nenthead Mines car park. Pansies

 

[Pegasus]

Hawthorn?

Yes!

 

[Lankyman]

Nenthead Mines car park. Pansies

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They seem able to thrive in all sorts of harsh places. I've seen them on lead mining waste and really high up in the North Pennines as well. The domestic variety are also quite hardy. One of my neighbours put some Aldi-bought hanging baskets of pansies on their fence and they flowered right through the winter. They subsequently self-seeded onto the gravel carpark. He was going to dowse them with some weedkiller but I asked him not to. I scooped them out and put them in my border where they've been flowering away for a few months now.

 

[georgenorth]

Nenthead Mines car park. Pansies

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They’re Viola Lutea (Mountain Pansy) I suspect. The same species as the ones below above Littondale. Not a species you can identify by colour!

 

[hannahb]

Coincidentally in the news this morning https://www.theguardian.com/environ...il-heaps-plants-metallophytes-heavy-metal-aoe

 

[Lankyman]

Coincidentally in the news this morning https://www.theguardian.com/environ...il-heaps-plants-metallophytes-heavy-metal-aoe

'Calaminarian' - sounds like an obscure early Christian sect. I have a new word to slip into conversations.

 

[kay]

Wavy Bittercress (apparently edible)

Yes - one of my salad staples during covid when grocery deliveries were difficult and husband had been sent one of those NHS "don't catch Covid whatever you do" letters. We had some good salads, but I usually can\t be bothered to forage tiny leaves.

 

[Jim MacPherson]

'Calaminarian' - sounds like an obscure early Christian sect. I have a new word to slip into conversations.

I think they must have morphed into botanists as two or three had a visit to Pike Law when we were busy with the OreSome project a few years ago, they got quite exited with some of the plants to be found on the site and started incanting and doing 'rituals' about calaminarian things. They actually came to see if they could use lichens to give some dating data but decided the pesky rabbits had been such keen grazers that there were no old specimens about.

Jim

 

[langcliffe]

I'm cheating here, because I didn't take this photograph and it wasn't taken in the UK. It was taken earlier this week by Patrick Lanski on Charmant Som in Chartreuse, and it shows a sea of wild daffodils. Alas, I always arrive two weeks too late to see this.

 

[pwhole]

 

[Lankyman]

It's a few weeks since I was on a canal but it seems like we're into high summer already. Temperatures were pushing 30 C yesterday; today was thankfully much cooler with a welcome easterly breeze. Some things I saw - yellow flag iris

A big dog rose (nice scent)

Yellow water lily ( there were also white ones but too far away for my phone)

A small white flower I'm not sure of

Crosswort

 

[bagpuss]

It's a few weeks since I was on a canal but it seems like we're into high summer already. Temperatures were pushing 30 C yesterday; today was thankfully much cooler with a welcome easterly breeze. Some things I saw - yellow flag iris
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A big dog rose (nice scent)
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Yellow water lily ( there were also white ones but too far away for my phone)
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A small white flower I'm not sure of
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Crosswort
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Google lens suggests the white flowered one is watercress, I've not seen it in the wild before so not sure!

 

[bagpuss]

Google lens suggests the white flowered one is watercress, I've not seen it in the wild before so not sure!

Another suggestion is Sweet Alyssum, probably evidence that online plant ID can't always been trusted and books are better!

 

[Lankyman]

Google lens suggests the white flowered one is watercress, I've not seen it in the wild before so not sure!

I'd go along with this more than alyssum given the watery location. I have white alyssum growing at home and it has a particular scent which the canal plant didn't seem to have.

 

[Lankyman]

Russian comfrey (very popular with the bees today)

Almost all the white hawthorn which was so prominent earlier this month seems to have gone. There is some pink hawthorn around though.

 

[Mr Dinwiddy]

More flowers that are characteristic of the Dales limestones. This one being bloody crane's-bill.
The photo however was taken at Hodbarrow Nature reserve- an old iron mine near Millom. The old open cast is now flooded and full of birds and the old spoil heaps are re-colonised by limestone plants. Sorry Badlad, I know its a caving forum but I have no idea whether there are any caves in that block of limestone west of the Duddon.

 

[Pegasus]

Ragged Robin at Leighton Moss nature reserved

 

[Lankyman]

It's the native flower of Denmark! A plant I associate with summer - there are some stunning displays alongside the motorways but it's frowned on to stop for a photo. Oxeye daisy growing out of a railway bridge.

 

[bagpuss]

Ragged Robin at Leighton Moss nature reserved

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Also saw a nice ragged Robin today

Have mostly tried to share wild flowers near caves, but just from walking on Mendip today around Chew Valley area.

Meadow Vetchling

Not very good at Orchid ID.. feel free to ID!

6 spot Burnet moth on Birds Foot Trefoil. Better not start a butterfly thread

 

[pwhole]

Musk Mallow