Thursday, May 28, 2020

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Adoxa moschatellina (Moschatel)

Aegopodium podagraria (Ground Elder)

Ajuga reptans (Bugle)

Allium ursinum (Ramsons)

Anemone nemorosa (Wood Anemone)

Antennaria dioica (Mountain Everlasting)

Anthriscus sylvestris (Cow Parsley)

Arabis hirsuta (Hairy Rockcress)

Arenaria serpyllifolia (Thyme Leaved Sandwort)

Asperula cynanchica (Squinancywort)

Cardamine pratensis (Cuckooflower)

Carlina vulgaris (Carline Thistle)

Cerastium fontanum (Common Mouse-ear)

Chrysosplenium oppositifolium (Opposite Leaved Golden Saxifrage)

Circaea x intermedia (Upland Enchanters Nightshade)

Clematis vitalba (Travellers Joy)

Convallaria majalis (Lily of the Valley)

(Cruciata laevipes) Crosswort


Dianthus deltoides (Maiden Pink)

Daphne Mezereone (Daphne Mezereone)

Epipactis atrorubens (Dark Red Helleborine)

Epipactis helleborine (Broad Leaved Helleborine)

Erinus alpinus (Fairy Foxglove)

Galium aparine (Cleavers)


Galium boreale (Northern Bedstraw)

Galium saxatile (Heath Bedstraw)

Galium sterneri (Limestone Bedstraw)

Geranium molle (Dovesfoot Cranesbill)

Gentianella amarella (Autumn Gentian)

Gentianella campestris (Field Gentian)

Geum rivale (Water Avens)

Geum urbanum (Wood Avens)

Helianthemum nummularium (Common Rock-rose)

Hippocrepis comosa (Horseshoe Vetch)

Hyacinthoides non-scripta (Bluebell)

Hypericum hirsutum (Hairy St. John's Wort)

Hypericum montanum (Pale St. John's Wort)

Inula conyzae (Ploughman's spikenard)

Lamiastrum galeobdolan (Yellow Archangel)

Lotus corniculatus (Birds Foot Trefoil)

Lysimachia nemorum (Yellow Pimpernel)

Medicago lupulina (Black Medick

Metampyrum pratense (Common Cow-wheat)

Minuartia verna (Spring Sandwort)

Myrrhis odorata (Sweet Cicely)

Ophrys insectifera (Fly Orchid)

Orchis mascula (Early Purple Orchid)

Paris quadrifolia (Herb Paris)

Pedicularis palustrus (Marsh Lousewort)

Pilosella officinarum (Mouse-ear Hawkweed)

Plantago lanceolata (Ribwort Plantain)

Polygala serpyllifolia  (Heath Milkwort)

Polygala vulgaris (Common Milkwort)

Polygonatum odoratum (Angular Solomons Seal)

Potentilla erecta (Tormentil)

Potentilla sterilis (Barren Strawberry)

Potentilla tabernaemontani (Spring Cinquefoil)

Poterium sanguisorba (Salad Burnet)

Primula vulgaris and P.veris (Primrose and Cowslip)

Prunella vulgaris (Self Heal)

Prunus padus (Bird Cherry)

Saxifrage tridactylites (Rue Leaved Saxifrage)

Sherardia arvensis (Field Madder)

Stachys sylvatica (Hedge Woundwort)

Stellaria holostea (Greater Stitchwort)

Talictrum minus (Lesser Meadow-rue) 

Trifolium medium (Zigzag Clover)

Trifolium pratense (Red Clover)

Veronica serpyllifolia (Thyme Leaved Speedwell)

Vicia sativa (Common Vetch)

Vicia sepium (Bush Vetch)

Viola riviniana (Dog Violet)


GRASSES

Briza media (Quaking Grass)

Carex ornithopodia (Birds Foot Sedge)

Luzula campestris (Field Wood Rush)

Melica nutans (Mountain Melick)

Melica uniflora (Wood Melick)

Seslera caerulea (Blue Moor Grass)

Melica nutans - Mountain Melick





Melica nutans (Mountain Melick)
Photo: Hutton Roof on 14th June 2017


Comparisons
Top: Melica uniflora (Wood Melick)
Bottom: Melica nutans (Mountain Melick)



Photo: 29th May 2021
Lancelot Clark Storth
Shows Mountain Melick (top)
Wood Melick (bottom)



This photo shows comparison in fruiting heads of plants
Top is Melica uniflora (Wood Melick) and the bottom is Melica nutans (Mountain Melick)

Briza media (Quaking Grass)




Briza media (Quaking Grass)
Showing immature just breaking from Sheath
Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT) on 27th May 2020

Briza media (Quaking Grass)
Showing immature just breaking from Sheath
and note the strange spotted leaves as though orchid interaction

Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT) on 27th May 2020

Briza media (Quaking Grass)
Showing immature just breaking from Sheath
Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT) on 27th May 2020

Briza media (Quaking Grass)
Showing immature just breaking from Sheath
Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT) on 27th May 2020


Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Melica uniflora - Wood Melick




Melica uniflora (Wood Melick)
Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal on May 25th 2020

We do have Melica uniflora (Wood Melick) throughout Hutton Roof and its reasonably common.  We are also fortunate to have the very rare Melica nutans (Mountain Melick)

The Nutans shows the leaves stained purple, and also the fruits hang individually from very short stems coming off the main stem. A look very familiar to anyone aware of the P. odoratum (Angular Solomons Seal)

Yet the Uniflora fruits and stems are very much more spread out and have several stems branching off from the main stem which may branch yet again and have two or more fruits hanging from each branch off.  You see an example of the branch off at the very top right of the above photo


Melica uniflora (Wood Melick)
Showing flower coming off branched stems which is differing to Nutans.
Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT) on 27th May 2020
Click over photo to enlarge

Comparisons
Top: Melica uniflora (Wood Melick)
Bottom: Melica nutans (Mountain Melick)

This photo shows comparison in fruiting heads of plants
Top is Melica uniflora (Wood Melick) and the bottom is Melica nutans (Mountain Melick)

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Galium aparine - Cleavers






 Galium aparine (Cleavers)
Photo: Shows the head of the plant including small flowers
Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal 26th May 2020

  Galium aparine (Cleavers)
Photo: Shows the head of the plant including small flowers
Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal 26th May 2020

  Galium aparine (Cleavers)
Photo: Shows the head of the plant including small flowers
Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal 26th May 2020

  Galium aparine (Cleavers)
Photo: Shows the head of the plant including small flowers
Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal 26th May 2020

 Galium aparine (Cleavers)
Photo: Shows the head of the plant including small flowers
Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal 26th May 2020


Galium aparine (Cleavers)
Shows a population on Slape Ln, Burton In Kendal
on 18th May 2021



Galium aparine (Cleavers)
Shows a population on Slape Ln, Burton In Kendal
on 18th May 2021


Galium aparine (Cleavers)
Shows a population on Slape Ln, Burton In Kendal
on 18th May 2021

Monday, May 25, 2020

Prunus padus (Bird Cherry)



 Prunus padus (Bird Cherry)
Photo: Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal on 13th May 2020

  Prunus padus (Bird Cherry)
Photo: Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal on 13th May 2020

  Prunus padus (Bird Cherry)
Photo: Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal on 13th May 2020

  Prunus padus (Bird Cherry)
Photo: Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal on 13th May 2020

 Prunus padus (Bird Cherry)
Photo: Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal on 13th May 2020

Lysimachia nemorum - Yellow Pimpernel




Lysimachia nemorum - Yellow Pimpernel
Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT) - 13th May 2020

Lysimachia nemorum - Yellow Pimpernel
Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth (CWT) - 13th May 2020

Geum urbanum - Wood Avens (or Herb Bennet)



 Geum urbanum (Wood Avens)
Photo: Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal  17th May 2020

 Geum urbanum (Wood Avens)
Photo: Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal  17th May 2020

 Geum urbanum (Wood Avens)
Photo: Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal  17th May 2020

 Geum urbanum (Wood Avens)
Photo: Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal  17th May 2020



Geum urbanum - Wood Avens
Photo: Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal 25th May 2020


I just had to stop and check out these Wood Avens. Normally you would see 5 petals, but here within close proximity I found one with 6, one with 8, and one with 9 petals.

Hybrid Avens (Geum x intermedium)

This beauty is found on Slape Lane, just after the area "Bullfinch plantation" which is marked on the top bar of a fence.

There is heavy populations of both Water (40 plus) and Wood Avens present in the nearby vicinity and you can see the Avens intermingled with the leaves of anemone to either side of the banking. 

The hybrid obviously is rarer and harder to find, but it's there and you first become aware of it's prescence by its beautiful yellow petals.  The hybrid takes on more of the look of the water avens, however the petals take on the colour of the Wood Avens.  Also if you note the petals are also resembling the edges of the Wood Avens at the bottom.  See differences from the following photos (taken on 30th April 2021)

This photo shows both hybrid intermediate on the left and the water Avens to the right, you can see they do have some similar build with the sepals etc, but the petals are totally different to one another, first in colour and secondly in the shape.  With the hybrid you get the yellow petal and the more rounded edge at the bottom of the petal. (photo taken on Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal on 30th April 2021)



This photo shows the water avens. (photo taken on Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal on 30th April 2021)


This photo shows the water avens (inside). (photo taken on Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal on 30th April 2021)


This photo shows the water avens. (photo taken on Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal on 30th April 2021)



This photo shows the rarer hybrid avens. (photo taken on Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal on 30th April 2021)


This photo shows the rarer hybrid avens with other buds awaiting opening. (photo taken on Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal on 30th April 2021)



This photo shows the rarer hybrid avens from the inside/underside. (photo taken on Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal on 30th April 2021)



Top: Water Avens
Middle: Wood Avens
Bottom: Hybrid intermediate (G. rivale and g.urbanum)

Sunday, May 24, 2020

Aegopodium podagraria - Ground Elder






Ground Elder
Photo: Vicarage Lane 5th June 2021

Ground Elder
Photo: Vicarage Lane 5th June 2021
Ground Elder
Photo: Vicarage Lane 5th June 2021
Ground Elder
Photo: Vicarage Lane 5th June 2021

Ground Elder
Photo: Vicarage Lane 5th June 2021

Ground Elder
Photo: Vicarage Lane 5th June 2021

Ground Elder
Photo: Vicarage Lane 5th June 2021
Ground Elder
Photo: Vicarage Lane 5th June 2021

Ground Elder
Photo: Vicarage Lane 5th June 2021

Ground Elder
Photo: Vicarage Lane 5th June 2021

Ground Elder
Photo: Vicarage Lane 5th June 2021