Wild flowers

[Cantclimbtom]

The flowers and shape don't look quite right for Hogweed, possibly Hemlock?

Can't see in the photo but hemlock would have purple speckles where shoots join the stems especially in the bottom 1/3rd of the plant, probably hemlock would be a bit taller and denser?

 

[Lankyman]

I shall have to try and get a closer look next time. Those particular plants are hard to get close to being behind barbed wire on the land side and the river on the other. I could do with a pocket plant guide ...

 

[Lankyman]

Overcast with some sunny spells but at least it wasn't raining so we went for a walk around Hindburndale in the Forest of Bowland. There are quite a few wildflower meadows up there, similar to the North Pennines in some respects but without the ravages of mining. I don't think I've seen so much yellow rattle in one place before.

Lots of buttercups and red clover as well

 

[Mike Kushy]

 

[tony from suffolk]

Common hogweed, this one with nice pinkish flowers.

 

[BigSoph]

(I think) wild violets on Grassington Moorside today

 

[langcliffe]

(I think) wild violets on Grassington Moorside today

Pansies.

 

[Lankyman]

(I think) wild violets on Grassington Moorside today

I'd be wild too if a dog was going to widdle on me!

 

[Lankyman]

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The orchid looks like a bee orchid but the little white ones are eluding me. They look like some kind of saxifrage - anyone know for sure?

 

[langcliffe]

The orchid looks like a bee orchid but the little white ones are eluding me. They look like some kind of saxifrage - anyone know for sure?

Spring sandwort, I think.

 

[Lankyman]

Spring sandwort, I think.

It looks like quite a scarce plant, quite localised and likes 'old mine workings of lead, zinc and copper' - see the distribution map:

Sabulina verna

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On another website many of the photographs of it are from Warton Crag which I used to live below.

Sandwort (Spring) / Spring Sandwort / sand wort - Wild Flower Finder

I must admit I've never noticed it despite having walked over the Crag literally hundreds of times. Must do better!

 

[Fulk]

How about some fauna to go with the flora?

 

[Mr Mike]

Patterdale, coming down from Fairfield. Daisy and buttercup meadow.

 

[Lankyman]

Cool and breezy today so not much scent from this honeysuckle

I saw this single plant growing directly out of the canal but I'm not sure what it is. At first I thought it might be a mint but there was no smell at all.

 

[Mike Kushy]

The orchid looks like a bee orchid but the little white ones are eluding me. They look like some kind of saxifrage - anyone know for sure?

Yes quite a rare one actually, grows on the stone edge in places with heavy metals.

Spring sandwort, I think.

You got it

 

[bagpuss]

On holidays so not caving area related ones from me I'm afraid.
Heddon Valley

Wall Pennywort

Stonecrop (not sure which type)

Sheeps-bit

Birds Foot Trefoil & Sorrel

English Stonecrop

Foreland point
Heath Bedstraw

Common Cow-wheat (in a wooded section of coast path)

Heath Orchid?

 

[Mike Kushy]

Cool and breezy today so not much scent from this honeysuckle
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I saw this single plant growing directly out of the canal but I'm not sure what it is. At first I thought it might be a mint but there was no smell at all.
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Marsh Valerian?

 

[Lankyman]

Marsh Valerian?

Yes, that seems to be it. I must say I've never noticed it before (unlike the red valerian which is all over the Warton crags and quarries and even stone walls in the village).

 

[tony from suffolk]

Can't see in the photo but hemlock would have purple speckles where shoots join the stems especially in the bottom 1/3rd of the plant, probably hemlock would be a bit taller and denser?

Beware! If growing by a stream it's very likely to be hemlock water dropwort, which unlike common hemlock doesn't have purple blotches on the stem.

Regarding cow parsley, my Scottish wife calls it dog's flourish.

 

[pwhole]

Opium Poppy growing by a main road in Sheffield.