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A nice summery one, Northern Marsh Orchid (Dactylorhiza purpurella). I'm not sure why flying insects are attracted to something that looks like a mouth, but it works.
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Something to look out for next spring, particularly under old Hazel hedges but it can be found under many species of tree and shrub in dark, damp spots. It's Toothwort (Lathraea squamaria), a total parasite, getting all of it's nutrient and energy from the host plant. I'ts an uncommon plant, but seems to be happy popping up in any suitable habitats in towns & villages. This specimen was in Morpeth, Northumberland.
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Just in case we forget that trees are flowers! Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
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A simple Ox-eye Daisy flower (Leucanthemum vulgare), but if you look at the tallest "petal" just right of centre, the tip looks sort of torn off. Actually it shows the tips of the petals which were fused to form this "Ray Floret". What looks like a single flowerhead is a composite of hundreds of individual flowers. Many plants do this, they are in a family called the Asteracea - it's a very successful strategy.
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Common Cornsalad (Valarianella locusta) (probably).There are half a dozen species of Cornsalad, this being the commonest, and they are tough to distinguish. As the name suggests, this plant is edible in salads. This one was on a cobbled pavement area in the town, I wouldn't recommend eating one picked from there!
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Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor). This plant is considered to be essential, if you want a wildflower meadow, it parasites on grasses and keeps the robust grasses from dominating. It's an annual and the seeds are very short lived, they need to germinate in the winter after the plant had flowered. Also they apparently need 4 months of below 5C to germinate, so how it doesn't die out after a warm winter is a mystery to me. #PlantADay #Botany #Nature #Plant #Wildflower #BloomScrolling
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Common Knapweed again (Centaurea nigra), showing the complex spikey bracts under the flower. They are actually modified leaves, although I'm uncertain as to their purpose.
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Greater Stitchwort (Rabelera holostea), a very common hedgerow / woodland plant.
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Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra). A very common thistle-like flower on roadsides. It's a "Composite" flower - each of those this petal-like things is a flower with it's petals fused together (they are called "florets"), complete with all of the reproductive bits and, most importantly for that fly, nectarines at the base dishing out insect-pop.
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Sweet Woodruff (Gallium odoratum). In the UK this is an Ancient Woodland Indicator (AWI) - if there are enough AWI's around you are probably in an ancient wood.
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Chickweed Wintergreen (Lysimacia europea), a very badly named plant as it isn't a Chickweed and it isn't a Wintergreen. A common sight under the bracken on Northumbrian moorlands, in Scotland it's also common in open pine woodlands. The County Flower of Nairn. This one's on a bed of Creeping Corydalis.
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Yellow Loosetrife (Lysimachia vulgaris). One of those native wildflowers that looks good in the garden with no horticultural jiggery-pokery. It runs amok along the riverbank at Rothbury.
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Herb Bennet (Geum urbanum), one of those boring little things you see when you walk through urban woodland, but close up it's rather nice.
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A Sitka Spruce flower, just starting it's journey to be Red Squirrel food.
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A small colony of plants on a drystone wall in an iconic location on Lindisfarne. No idea on teh grasses, the flower is Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum)
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This stuff's still flowering away nicely. Red Clover (Trifolium pratense), "pratense" means "meadow", and this thing is surely the classic meadow plant. And beautiful with it.
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This is a striking Autumn plant, Perennial Sow-thistle (Sonchus arvensis), a UK native. It's often seen on roadsides - a big tall dandelion thing. In the top right of the image is is a fruit dangling under a "pappus" - the botanical name for the collection of fine white hairs that lets it get blown along. I have no idea on the Hoverfly Id, but it's getting a nice October feed.
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Another out-of-season image, Wild Garlic((Alliun ursinum), beloved of chefs in posh restaurants and foragers in general. Unmistakable and common enough to support much foraging.
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No flowers on display. This had me wondering for a while, masses of it growing out of a local "neglected" very verdant pond. It's Water Forget-me-not (Myosotis scorpioides) Growing out of a thick cover of Water Starwort (Callitriche sp.) I've included a little crop of a Starwort plant, just about to flower I think.
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Lesser sea-spurrey, (Spergularia marina), a coastal plant that is capable of thriving in saline areas. This allows it to follow the salted main roads and it's now common in Northumberland a long way inland (right into the Cheviot Hills)
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It's "well and truly October" day here: windy, cold and very wet. So it's time for the cheer up pictures, this a Common Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuschia) in a little bit of mown grass, on a lowland heath.
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Haresfoot Clover (Trifolium arvense), an uncommon plant in our part of Northumberland except where, like here, it was planted as part of a wildflower mix!
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A study of the grass-like flowerhead of Ribwort Plantain (Plantago lanceolata), as common and widespread a plant as you could get.
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Rosebay Willowherb (Chamerion angustifolium) showing it's tenacity, on a small ledge on a sandstone crag.
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It's almost October and these iconic summer arable weeds are still flowering away in our garden. Field Poppies (Papaver rhoeas). Note that's not our garden!
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The dreaded highly invasive Pirri-pirri burr (Acaena novae-zelandiae),originally imported from New Zealand on wool in the early 1900's. It loves sand dunes and is thriving in the dunes on Lindisfarne where it's burrs stick to dogs and get transferred to everywhere people walk those dogs in the countryside. notably the edges of forest tracks and local NT sites and country parks.
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Common Reed (Phragmites australis), a native to our shores and a wonderful common sight on wetlands. Citizens of North America may not agree with "wonderful" as over there it's an invasive alien that displaces local plants, like our Himalayan Balsam.
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Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) sitting pretty in Borrowdale, Lake District.
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Meadow Vetchling (Lathyris pratensis), or "One of those pea like things". There are an amazing number of species with flowers like this, all in the Legume family.
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