Rosettes Sept 2020

I saw a lot of rosettes yesterday, some before the flowers grew but some with flowers where the rosette was still there.

Shepherd's purse, quite variable. Sometimes there's no rosette at all when it blooms but this one has a full rosette and flowers in the centre.

I saw a lot of hoary mustard, some just rosettes and some with flowers and rosettes and some with flowers but no rosette.

These hoary mustard have both the rosette and flowers.

these are just the rosettes

hoary mustard

hawkweed ox-tongue and hoary mustard without obvious basal rosettes

hoary mustard, hawkweed ox-tongue and buddleja along the railway line with the Post Office Tower in the background

I saw a few bristly ox-tongue, some flowers with bees. The leaves have those distinctive blisters.

horseweed (Erigeron canadensis) rosette

hawkweed ox-tongue (Picris hieracioides) rosette

hawkweed ox-tongues  with no visible rosette

Geranium molle rosettes

Autumn hawkbit (Scorzoneroides autumnalis), rosette with flowers

with all this surrounding growth, the rosette / leaves are not visible

autumn hawkbit, to the right shepherd's purse and an autumn hawkbit rosette above that