I am here referring to the last two posts in this blog. I'm afraid my readers will have to do a bit of up/down scrolling to see the pictures and compare them to my list of names. Sorry! I am now going to attempt to name the wild flowers that I have recently photographed, all flowering within a half-mile of our home on the Isle of Skye.
I am aware that for the precise identification of a wild flower, a serious botanist will need to see the whole plant, but I am not going to try to provide botanical names for my flowers. When it comes to common names, many wild flowers (if not all of them) have multiple different names... so I am going to offer the names I know these flowers by.
I welcome comments and corrections - I am not at all certain that my names are entirely accurate - and what is number 22...??? Over to you...
1.Tufted vetch
2. Buttercup
3. Speedwell
4. Tormentil
5. Hawkbit
6. Some variety of plantain
7. Ragged Robin
8. Northern marsh orchid
9. Foxglove
10. Ox-eye daisy
11. Common spotted orchid
12. Purple saxifrage
13. Heath bedstraw
14. Some variety of bee orchid
15. Spear thistle
16. Cow parsley
17 White and purple marsh thistles
18. Birdsfoot trefoil
19. Red clover
20. Ling heather
21. Some other kind of plantain
22. No idea…!
23. Common hogweed
24. Stinging nettle
25. White clover
26. Bull thistle
27. Goosegrass (and a prize for the teeniest flower...)
28. Yellow vetch
29. Ragwort
30. Yarrow
31. Meadowsweet
32. Red campion
1 comment:
My sister, Sue, has commented (via Facebook)...
OK, I think 6 is Greater Plantain, 14 is Butterfly Orchid, 21 is Ribwort Plantain and 22 is Burdock - the one where the flower head leaves a mass of tiny seeds all with little hooks at the end that take for ever to tease out of Humphrey’s fur! I think Cleavers might be the proper name for Goosegrass, and is 28 Meadow Vetchling? I agree on all the others - well, I don’t know any thistle names but they are a Scottish thing anyway!
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