Wild flowers

[Lankyman]

I was surprised to see harebells the other day, as I associate them with autumn, not July (there was quite a strong wind blowing and it was difficult to get them in focus properly):

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My UK wild flowers book says that they bloom from June to September, Wikipedia says July to November in Britain. I suppose it very much depends where you are - it was noticeable on our recent Orkney trip that the flora was significantly 'behind' back home in Lancashire. I always think of harebells as a high summer flower.

 

[bagpuss]

I was surprised to see harebells the other day, as I associate them with autumn, not July (there was quite a strong wind blowing and it was difficult to get them in focus properly):

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I saw a load yesterday, nr Mendip.

 

[paul]

I saw a load yesterday, nr Mendip.

Ditto on High Peak Trail, Derbyshire.

 

[Lankyman]

A walk along the canal, two or three weeks after the last one and still no rain. Things are looking a bit parched. Great willow herb looming over me on both sides of the track

By the canal itself lots of knapweed

Some spikes of purple loosestrife by the water's edge

and some common fleabane

Actually in the water, arrowhead (no prizes for working out how it got the name).

A large block of tufted vetch which was attracting the bees

 

[bagpuss]

I saw a load yesterday, nr Mendip.

On Crook Peak, Mendip, today. Hard to get a photo as the breeze was blowing them too much.

 

[pwhole]

Not entirely 'wild', as these were in the Botanical Gardens in Sheffield, and Bugle Lilies are native to Southern Africa, but the Field Scabious is native, and it's a good shot, so I don't care

Flickr

 

[Lankyman]

Walking in the Lake District again yesterday and still very dry. You wouldn't know that this is one of the wettest parts of England. Grassland looks brown and hammered by the sun. Fortunately our route had a lot of cooler, wooded areas although bracken is overhead in places.
Wood sage

A single large burdock by the memorial seat overlooking Windermere. The bees were all over the flowers

Bee on a ragwort flower

Little pockets of heather (bell heather I think) standing out in the dried grasses

 

[me]

Flowers found on the spoils of a lead mine. Don't want to label them because I think I will get it wrong.

Also does anyone have a photo of Leadwort?

 

[Lankyman]

Flowers found on the spoils of a lead mine. Don't want to label them because I think I will get it wrong.

Also does anyone have a photo of Leadwort?


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My tuppence worth:
pink ones look like wild thyme,
the yellow and orange ones look like bird's-foot trefoil,
the little white ones starry saxifrage,
the last one - rosebay willow-herb?
Now shoot me down!

 

[bagpuss]

My tuppence worth:
pink ones look like wild thyme,
the yellow and orange ones look like bird's-foot trefoil,
the little white ones starry saxifrage,
the last one - rosebay willow-herb?
Now shoot me down!

Last one looks like a speedwell, heath speedwell?

 

[AR]

Flowers found on the spoils of a lead mine. Don't want to label them because I think I will get it wrong.

Also does anyone have a photo of Leadwort?

From wikipedia, having looked it up under its "proper" name of Spring Sandwort

Sabulina verna - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Lankyman]

Last one looks like a speedwell, heath speedwell?

I think you're right? It does look a bit short for willow-herb.

 

[Lankyman]

Monkey flowers at the Dyserth waterfall. Damn Yankees coming over here and brightening up our watercourses ...

 

[Karen L]

Well I thought I knew what Leadwort looked like but I'm now questioning whether I've actually seen Starry Saxifrage.

 

[me]

Well I thought I knew what Leadwort looked like but I'm now questioning whether I've actually seen Starry Saxifrage.

I have check the other (bad) photos I took of the little white flower and they don't have the two yellow dots on the petals that the Starry Saxifrage is supposed to have.
Leadwort (Spring Sandwort) petals are rounded at the end and these are pointed so I think they are a Saxifrage but perhaps Meadow Saxifrage?

Interestingly they are all from when I walked round Magpie Mine (Derbyshire) (22/06/2026) which is where the photo was taken on the Wiki link

 

[kay]

My tuppence worth:
pink ones look like wild thyme,
the yellow and orange ones look like bird's-foot trefoil,
the little white ones starry saxifrage,
the last one - rosebay willow-herb?
Now shoot me down!

Isn't the white one leadwort, Sabulina verna? I'm going mainly from the purple anthers. Despite it's name, it's in flower at this time of year. And the right habitat. Last one is Heath Speedwell I think, looks right, and I'm going from the habitat. Certainly a speedwell.

 

[kay]

I have check the other (bad) photos I took of the little white flower and they don't have the two yellow dots on the petals that the Starry Saxifrage is supposed to have.
Leadwort (Spring Sandwort) petals are rounded at the end and these are pointed so I think they are a Saxifrage but perhaps Meadow Saxifrage?

Interestingly they are all from when I walked round Magpie Mine (Derbyshire) (22/06/2026) which is where the photo was taken on the Wiki link

I think they're rounded, but appearing pointed because the edges are slightly upturned. Look at this one for example: https://www.irishwildflowers.ie/pages/544a.html

 

[kay]

And this one, from the Somerset Rare Plants group

 

[Lankyman]

A welcome(?) return to showers and reasonable temperatures today on a walk over Blea Moor in the Dales.
Lady's bedstraw at Ribblehead

Up on the moor itself large areas of bog asphodel

Off the moor and in the sheltered confines of Thorns Gill some scabious on the limestone

Not a flower but it's noticeable that the rowan berries are ripening and some of the leaves are showing signs of the effects of recent heat and drought

 

[Karen L]

We had some rain last Sunday, which was welcome, but in some parts of the country trees are beginning to die, which is bad.