September 2024

19-9-2024

hedge bedstraw

Jersey cudweed

As usual when I go to an RSPB reserve, the best plants are in the car park and around the entrance.

smooth hawk's-beard (Crepis capillaris)

the leaves are clearer on this photo

the flower is clearer on this photo (not that it's clear at all sadly but it was identifiable as Crepis capillaris)

more smooth hawk's-beard (Crepis capillaris) rosettes

bristly oxtongue

horseweed (Erigeron canadensis, etc) rosette

Crepis vesicaria possibly, in an area of mown grass so I don't hold out much hope it will survive and be allowed to bloom

water mint

common fleabane

thistle (slender or marsh?)

vetch

I saw more perennial sow thistle (Sonchus arvensis) locally yesterday. There was a butterfly on one but wasn't quick enough to take a photo.

I've struggled to photograph stone parsley (Sison amomum). It's a thin wispy plant and the flowers are tiny.

I noticed this willowherb locally with extremely long fruits. I must go back and take better photos and then hope to identify the specific willowherb species.

A new self-seeder for me: salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor), only seen it out and about, not in my own garden before. I've been watching for flowers and suddenly not only flowers but wilting ones so I missed the first flowers.

this was the salad burnet with buds a week ago, before the buds opened

Jersey cudweed

There seems to be a lot of it around here. When I first saw it in Camden and struggled to get flowers in focus (it was in the gutter) but someone saw me taking photos and removed it - so sad people can't wait to take away a wildflower if someone takes an interest.

a Jersey cudweed seedling