Does anyone have the Yeo article Yeo PF.(1978) "A taxonomic revision of Euphrasia in Europe" Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 77(4) 223–334 available...
Hi All I have a complete mental block with this plant, picture posted in Orchid folder. Flowers about 3mm, growing on sandy heath. Could someone please put me...
Dear John Perhaps Scleranthus sp? Best wishes Charles ... From: UKBotany@yahoogroups.com [mailto:UKBotany@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John Sent: 03 August...
Hi John (and Charles) Annual Knawel, Thanks for that!!!!! It has been a long time since I last saw it but at least I had it in the right family! John ... ...
Hi - can anyone tell me if there is a simple way to tell burdocks apart? I'm pretty sure I don't have the Greater one Arctium lappa but there seems to be quite...
Hi Gill, As I expect you know, the petioles of the basal leaves of Arctium lappa are solid whereas in A minus and A nemorosum they are hollow. For these...
All the ones I find here in Argyll are intermediate between minus and nemorosum. It's annoying that Mapmate doesn't have a taxon for this aggregate. I have to...
Mick Crawley's Flora of Berkshire has little hints on a number of difficult species groups. Here's what he says about Arctium: The two main groups of species...
Thanks all. Yes, I am aware of the hollow/solid stalks to distinguish A. lappa, and also its flatter arrangement of flowers and I believe they are much bigger...
BBC Radio Lancashire broadcast a dreadful set of items on ragwort this morning. They went out into the car park where there was some ragwort growing out of a...
Hi Folks, Robin Page has gone off on a Ragwort rant in the Daily Telegraph. It is full of inaccuracies. Annoyingly I had a letter with several prominent...
Looks like Pimpinella saxifraga (Burnet Saxifrage) to me... Â Â Â ____________________________________________ "Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who...
Andy, The leaf on the left of the picture is Pimpinella saxifraga which is a characteristic and widespread plant of short grassland, especially on chalk. The...
Thanks Oliver for the confirmation. My photographic memory was letting me down. When I looked at my own photographs, I realised I had identified it as Burnet...
Hello, Thanks for the conformations. Sometimes the venacular name is hyphenated: Burnet-saxifrage. I think I prefer the two separate names Burnet Saxifrage,...
Hello, There is another one for ID which I have identified but because I am capable of making silly mistakes and because the habitat is not right, I may have...
Hello Rodney, Thanks for the confirmation. There was so much of it, I thought I could be wrong. Not there any more, not this year. It was also on chalk,...
Andy, it usually lives with its feet near water. I would be surprised to see it on chalk, but I did once see a plant at the edge of a London car park. Rodney ...
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Hello All I have uploaded some initial images on Wintergreen I dont think its Common Wintergreen possibly Intermediate Winteregreen The Stigma is curved and...
