Hi Ian May visit Port Meadow in next couple of days; do you have any specific instructions re the two speciesmentioned or are they both widespread?; Cheers ...
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Hi - Yes, Ulex minor is usually in drier places. Generally growing amongst Calluna in fairly open heath, but will survive for some time under the inevitable...
A reserve in SE Hants has, or has had, both U. minor and U. gallii as well as U. europaeus! (Brewis, Bowman & Rose, Flora of Hampshire, 1996). Ian ... From:...
Hello all, I am keen to identify a small (mostly 10-15cms high), white-flowered labiate found growing in W. Northants (it has been there in some numbers for at...
Paul, without a picture or more detail it is hard to say much about this plant, but think of the possibility that it is not a labiate at all but in some other...
Still has, Ian, as of last year at any rate. (This is Black Point on Hayling Island, which also has another predominantly Western species, Juncus acutus. It...
Paul - I agree with Rodney -- we need a picture! Meanwhile the only whitish-flowered wetland labiates (lamiates?) I can think of are lesser skullcap...
I was with a BSBI group a few years ago with some eminent botanists but I'm not sure that we managed to find both then. Either that or I wasn't paying...
Dear Richard/Rodney, Of course - I thought I had loaded a picture at the same time as the note - clearly not. I shall do so as soon I can find the original. ...
Paul - If the soil is too dry, or gets droughted, or if there is some other environmental challenge perhaps Lycopus might remain small... Is the leaf shape...
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Thanks Richard, [As word of apology, I should note that I am itinerant at the moment, using other peoples' computers, a rough camera and am away from my ...
Paul - Yes, looks like gypsywort Lycopus europaeus. You're right that it's not as lush as it can be -- perhaps it's roots are struggling between the stones? ...
Hello, I have gypsywort Lycopus europaeus in my garden. The test is that the plant in the damp soil is growing taller than the submerged plant in this dry...
I get a strong impression that many plants have a lot more flowers than 'normal' this year. This appeared to me to be particularly true of hawthorn earlier in...
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Phil - I haven't noticed much difference in flowering, but I have noticed quite a lot of very early fungi this year. Boletus badius and Boletus erythropus,...
... Mycologists reckon it doesn't work like that! Back round 1980 we had a sequence of good years for fungi and they came up early during the damp summer of ...
Someone on this thread mentioned Thursley Common. My father lives in Guildford and he says that all three native Ulexes (or is it Ulices?) are there. He thinks...
Don't know about wild plants but my observations lead me to believe it's going to be a good year for cultivated tree fruit. No doubt whatever it is causes this...
... Maybe, but a bad year for cultivated fruit is often due to late frosts, whereas I think our native trees are more hardy (or flower later). Malcolm...
Richard, "not as lush as it can be -" is something of an understatement! However, I can see no option - it keys to L. europaeus so unless there's a very...
Hi All I have found yet another new site for the above on a road widening scheme, it seems to be a classic habitat for it. Several other sites have occurred...
Hi there, I'm a new member, I'm working on calcareous grassland in Sussex. But first I need to get a decent hand lens only x10 magnification. Does anyone know...
Martin - I've never seen cornflower wild in UK, but I think there are still a few native sites, unlike corncockle and some other formerly common field weeds. ...
Welcome Carole! Try Watkins and Doncaster: http://www.watdon.com/watdon_home.html. I bought a couple of good lenses from them recently, fairly reasonably...
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