Tiny Seedlings

I like to identify the tiniest seedlings so I can keep the ones I want and weed out the ones I don't. This page is very much a work-in-progress, started July 2018 when for some reason I noticed a lot of tiny seedlings.  End of June 2022 I noticed a lot of seedlings and those are towards the top of the table. I guess summer is a good time for self-seeders.

August  / Sept 2024

purple loosestrife

rough hawkbit possibly

oxeye daisy

not sure on this one yet, 31-8-2024

10 days later, 10-9-2024

2 weeks later 25-9-2024

fox-and-cubs seedlings

couple weeks later

those seedlings above are the result of me sowing the collected fox-and-cubs seeds but the seedling on the right below has self-seeded in this pot so I'm only guessing it looks like fox-and-cubs, verbascum blattaria on the left

agasteche top centre? strawberry right, bottom centre fringecups?, hairy bittercress bottom right

houndstongue seedlings possibly on the left, henbane on the right? 21-8-2024

10-9-2024

10-9-2024

10-9-2024

18-9-2024 this seedling is quite similar to the one above, it may even be the same one

i think this is speedwell but will leave it to grow to confirm

red campion

nipplewort, I think

I have found that primulas self-seed alot and as I have a pot of them, I notice a few seedlings which I think are primulas but will confirm when I see them develop

9-9-2024

8-9-2024

7-10-2024  a few primula seedlings

poppy, one of the more identifiable seedlings, Feb 2023
not sure yet, Feb 2023	not sure yet, Feb 2023
end of June 2022, think this is jasmine but it did not survive	teasel, June 2022
same seedling as above, beginning of August
5th caption	red campion, August 2022
red campion, August 2022	red campion on the left of the sheepsbit seedlings (close-up to the left)
evening primrose, August 2022	closer view of that seedling above at the bottom of the pot
green alkanet	green alkanet
brooklime, Veronica beccabunga, July 2022	Oxford ragwort, July 2022
globe thistle, August 2022	hairy bittercress, Nov 2022
nijer from birdseed, Nov 2022	more nijer seedlings, Nov 2022
unknown, 3-11-2022	shoofly, I think, 2-11-2022, not the clearest photo, will take another
selfheal, 30-10-2022	not sure of this, 2-11-2022
sheepsbit, 30-10-2022	uncertain, 2-11-2022
chickweed

first table July 2018

1. prickly sow thistle (not wall lettuce)	2. smooth sow thistle
3. (l to r) forget-me-not, snapdragon, deadnettle	7. (l to r)  nepeta, foxglove (behind), prickly sowthistle
5. Stachys byzantina (in lupin pot)	4. nasturtium
8. foxglove, nasturtium	9. (l to r) petty spurge, knautia or centaurea nigra?, hyssop
11. ox-eye daisy	12. (l to r) deadnettle, willowherb, deadnettle?
6. smooth sow thistle	10. ox-eye daisy
charlock	13. viola (or maybe hairy bittercress)
23. shepherd's purse	16. mostly violas, tiny snapdragon on its own
14. hairy bittercress (not viola) on the left, hyssop on the right	18. verbena bonariensis
15. lots of tiny violas, forget-me-nots, prickly sow thistle, a few deadnettle, verbascum far left
24.herb robert	17. nepeta
20.	19. cerinthe or honesty (I think)
21. willowherb (same as 12)	22. not so clear so another pic below few days later
23. maybe datura? -never developed, died-	22. above after a few days
24. cerinthe or borage? on the right, left not sure	27. pansy
25. delphinium	26. honeysuckle
28. aquilegia	29. not sure
the two seedlings below are not as tiny as most of the others
30. willowherb	31. veronica
32. brassica from birdseed	33. wild basil
34. deadnettle	35. teasel
36. petty spurge (leaf on the right missing)	37. not sure yet
38. herb robert?	39. honesty
40. wood avens	41. bramble (I think)
42. green alkanet	48. not sure (with hyssop seedling)
45. willow? (in echium pot)	46. horseweed or vebena or buddleja? (in echium pot)
I think the following two are the same, just at a slightly different stage, right has 4 leaves and 1 starting, left has 3 leaves and 1 starting, thinking hairy bittercress? same as 13 and 14?
47.	49.
50. pendulous sedge	51. maybe ox-eye daisy?
52. soft rush	53. creeping buttercup
54. iris foetidissima	creeping yellowcress ??
teasel	verbascum
not sure?
foxglove?
nepeta