Wild flowers

[bagpuss]

Jack-by-the hedge, Hampshire / Wiltshire border (aka Garlic Mustard)

An edible plant, but also food source of the orange tip butterfly.

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Chomped away on many a petal of that.

 

[Chris Scaife]

I took this photo with my phone in June 2020. Frog orchids on the approach to Hardrawkin Pot.

 

[langcliffe]

This, alas, is a false oxlip in the Grass Wood, near Grassington. We do have true oxlips in the neighbouring Bastow Wood, but there are so many cowslips and primroses in the area, it is inevitable that some of them get naughty together.

 

[Lankyman]

Not sure what this is but it's thriving at the edge of Anglesey (Puffin Island just offshore)

 

[Jim MacPherson]

Not sure what this is but it's thriving at the edge of Anglesey (Puffin Island just offshore)View attachment 25850

Possibly alexanders which like wild garlic have some culinary uses, the seeds when dried are quite peppery.

Jim

 

[langcliffe]

Possibly alexanders which like wild garlic have some culinary uses, the seeds when dried are quite peppery.

Jim

I agree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smyrnium_olusatrum

 

[Cantclimbtom]

I asked Google Lens about the pic and it also suggested Alexanders
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The yellow-flowered plant prominently featured is Alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum), a common coastal plant in the UK.

Edibility: Every part of the plant is edible, including the roots, stems, and leaves, and it was historically consumed as a vegetable.
Habitat: Alexanders thrives near the coast, particularly on cliffs, shores, and old quaysides.
Appearance: It is a tall biennial plant with shiny, dark green leaves and dense clusters of yellowish-green flowers that typically bloom from March to June.
History: Reputedly introduced by the Romans, it was widely cultivated as a pot herb before being largely replaced by celery

 

[Jim MacPherson]

Just out of the need for self-preservation allegedly it looks vaguely similar to hemlock, which is quite nasty, but alexanders flowers are yellow not white.

 

[Cantclimbtom]

Hemlock has distinctive purple spots and patches on the stems especially towards the base.

Hemlock grows rampantly in a few areas round my way so I see it all the time. Just keep away from it.

 

[Cantclimbtom]

Looks a bit like very big cows parsley but the purple on stem gives it away, the plants are small and purple not so pronounced at this time of year but you can still see the warning

And a friendlier little wildflower, maybe this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glechoma_hederacea

 

[JAA]

Nothing rare but the “Ladies Smock” which have started growing and flowering around the entrance to my dig are pretty

 

[Lankyman]

A first-of-the-year (for me personally): cowslips which were quite prolific in the graveyard at St Tudno's on the Great Orme. There were also some violets. One of the cowslips had a curious reddish tinge.

 

[langcliffe]

A first-of-the-year (for me personally): cowslips which were quite prolific in the graveyard at St Tudno's on the Great Orme. There were also some violets. One of the cowslips had a curious reddish tinge.
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The red cowslips are cultivars.

 

[Lankyman]

The red cowslips are cultivars.

It does look like something you'd see in a garden centre. It was the only red one I saw there. The old part of the cemetery nearest the chapel seems to have very little 'management' going on.

 

[hannahb]

A brief internet search suggests that the red ones do occur occasionally in the wild, are not typically cultivars when they are the odd ones out, and in some cases are thought to be the result of hybridisation with colourful, cultivated, closely related plants (e.g. Primula).

 

[tim.rose2]

More Dorset bluebells from todays walk...

Duncliffe woods

Fifehead woods

They'll all be gone in a couple of weeks time!

 

[langcliffe]

A brief internet search suggests that the red ones do occur occasionally in the wild, are not typically cultivars when they are the odd ones out, and in some cases are thought to be the result of hybridisation with colourful, cultivated, closely related plants (e.g. Primula).

So possibly half-cultivar....

 

[Pegasus]

 

[AR]

A brief internet search suggests that the red ones do occur occasionally in the wild, are not typically cultivars when they are the odd ones out, and in some cases are thought to be the result of hybridisation with colourful, cultivated, closely related plants (e.g. Primula).

I found a red Cowslip in an old quarry near Taddington once, my wife suggested at the time it was a hybrid.