Re: [UKBotany] Small Downland Plant (unidentified)
Hi Andy
No it isn't Autumn Gentian, it is a labiate, I suspect a late flowering,
hard growing (almost de rigeur on bare chalk slopes), white Ground Ivy.
I can't quite see the leaf shape.
John
British Marine Life Study Society wrote:
>Hello
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>Thanks for the reply Tina. Looking for white Autumn Gentian now!
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>I knew I was tired, but I forgot to put in the link to the photograph:
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>http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Flora385.jpg
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>The leaves are wrong for Autumn Gentian (=Felwort). I expect the above is a
>very common plant and I am having a "blind spot".
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>That is the trouble with putting up IDs as I should really know the answer,
>but I don't!
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>Although, I learnt some names as a child, these names often do not
>correspond to the book names, probably because the names given were the
>wrong plant. A rather limited selection of books were available in those
>days.
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>Mill Hill 2005
>http://www.glaucus.org.uk/MillHill2005.html
>Shoreham Bank 2005
>http://www.glaucus.org.uk/VetchTrail2005.htm
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>Cheers
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>Andy Horton
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>Adur Valley Nature Notes (including Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex)
>http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Adur2003.htm
>http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Adur2004.html
>http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Adur2005.html
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