It's been quite a while since I posted anything here, but I am looking for some opinions on a Saxifrage found growing on a wall in the Burren over the weekend....
Hi Giles, I'm pretty sure its actually Leucanthemum vulgare (Ox-eye Daisy). It's true that the "Kerry" Saxifrages don't grow in the Burren, however S....
Hi Darrel, Thank you for your comments. That now makes 2 votes for L. vulgare rather than a saxifrage. I was ignoring the other Saxifrages as they are clearly...
Hi Giles, Does sound like Cerastium arvense, again common in the Burren. I've never seen it England (it's mainly in the SE), but there are a couple of plants...
The only 4-petalled Cerastium I am aware of is C.diffusum, but it has much smaller flowers than C. arvense (well, it does in England, I've never seen it...
This may be a really stupid question, but would the dead flowers that I assume were on top of the stalks in the pic not be very different for a sax and the...
Is this unusual in November? Two small plants, both young and in full flower, one of them with small immature seedpods. Both at the edge of a rape field near...
I don't know C. diffusum, but looking at its description and photos it looks a very different plant. Mine was a perennial with narrow leaves, scarcely hairy...
The stalks were bare at the top - the only information I have at present are the photos on my website. I actually suspect that the stalks belonged to a...
Just back from a weekend in Connemara, and looking at a sample (just a small handful of stems) of U. intermedia collected in an old peat cutting ditch, I see...
Growing in the same peat cutting as the U. intermedia & U. stygia, I have some plants of a small creeping aquatic with spoon-shaped opposite leaves. As far as...
Were they all 4-petalled (and presumably sepalled? How many stamens?) or only some of them? Certainly doesn't sound like C. diffusum, but I don't nokw what it...
Hi all, I'm not sure about Elatine spp. & Callitriche spp., I've only ever seen Elatine once, but I think that it doesn't have the "clustered leaf" look of the...
Elatine have stipules in the leaf axils, Callitriche do not - although they do have bracts when flowering. Once more than one vein is produced, the venation of...
Richard Lansdown
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Nov 7, 2006 6:46 pm
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No stipules on this one and 3 parallel veins on the leaves (diverging from the lamina/petiole junction). Also a small rosette at the tip - about 3 leaf pairs -...
Hi Darrel, Thank you for the mention of Webb & Scannell. I had a look at a copy and in the post publication addendum. The Utricularia mentioned are U. vulgaris...
in full flower, on the verge of a dual carriageway main road (the A64 south of Malton near Whitwell. At first I thought it was a big groundsel, but it looked...
Your description definitely fits Callitriche - but without fruits you cannot identify it to species. The maltese cross-shaped glands have been through various...
Richard Lansdown
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Nov 9, 2006 6:56 am
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Richard, Thank you for confirming the ID as a Callitriche. I'm pleased that the glands were a useful character for the genus. I thought I'd replied to this...
Picris echioides is still flowering here in Dublin as well. Down in the Burren a week and a half ago Campanula rotundifolia, Cerastium arvense and Mycelis...
The forum has become a pain - it never got much use and we are now trying to close it down but it is not as easy as it would seem. Richard -- Richard Lansdown ...
Richard Lansdown
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Nov 9, 2006 6:13 pm
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My original post may not have got through. Please go to this link to help the Woodland Trust before midnight tonight (15th). ...
Common valerian flowering on a plant that had been cut or broken I think, and nearby a late shoot of devil's bit scabious with one fully open flowerhead....
In a message dated 19/11/06 17:32:02 GMT Standard Time, ... also still in flower at Hardcastle Crags, West Yorks. Sat 17th Nov. Cheers Colin P Duke [Non-text...
Re my message last year about Common Whitlow Grass in flower on 1st - 14th September in Glasgow... the council weeded it out this year. However, in Lenzie,...
I haven't listened to this, but thought it might be of interest. Phil L "Julian Pettifer recalls a scientific fraud from the 1940s which threatened to rock the...
I have seen Erophila *glabrescens* , the common one around here (Inner Hebrides)in flower every month of the year except August. I am sure that I can fill in...
Hello, Common Whitlow Grass is one of the specialities in Sussex. It grows just on the greensand outcrops amongst the chalk in the Adur valley (at Coombes) and...
Hello, Somebody has chopped the heads off the Devil's Bit Scabious on the local downs, which is a nuisance because they are the attractants for the late bees,...
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