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Seabird
03-Jun-08, 19:28
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/seabird72/flowers/CommonButterwort31-5-08.jpg

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/seabird72/flowers/Flowerf31-5-08.jpg

Seabird
03-Jun-08, 19:32
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/seabird72/flowers/CommonOrcyde31-5-08.jpg

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/seabird72/flowers/BirdsfootTrefoil31-5-08.jpg

Seabird
03-Jun-08, 19:34
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/seabird72/flowers/Flowere31-5-08.jpg

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/seabird72/flowers/Flowerd31-5-08.jpg

Seabird
03-Jun-08, 19:36
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/seabird72/flowers/Flowera31-5-08.jpg

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/seabird72/flowers/Flowerg31-5-08.jpg

Seabird
03-Jun-08, 19:44
This pic is of Bog Cotton
Was at one time picked and used.
This year seems to have provided ideal conditions for it to grow.
Near Loch Stempster there is a white carpet spreading across the Glen.
I hope someone can name the others, i think one is a Spotted orchid

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e307/seabird72/flowers/Cottontails.jpg

Tugmistress
03-Jun-08, 20:13
The 3rd pic looks suspiciously like the early purple orchid to me :)
7th maybe ladys smock or cardamine pratensis
8th pic is on the tip of my tongue and it is eluding me, i'll get back to you!

been told where an apparently rare plant is growing and hoping to get to photograph it in the next few days, called something like an oyster plant? can anyone confirm the name?

Good luck on the other ID's, i'll watch with interest as i see plenty of the yellow ones round here and think they are very pretty :)

Kenn
03-Jun-08, 21:11
1.Harebell
2.Violet
3.Spotted Ochid (From the leaves.)
4.Kidney Vetch
5.Water Stitch Wort.
6.Bugle possibly but not sure
7.Ladie's Smock
8.Common stitchwort

EMM
03-Jun-08, 21:20
Mertensia maritima or oysterplant

http://www.srgc.org.uk/monthfeature/may2004/Mertensia%20maritima%20x2.JPG



The 3rd pic looks suspiciously like the early purple orchid to me :)
7th maybe ladys smock or cardamine pratensis
8th pic is on the tip of my tongue and it is eluding me, i'll get back to you!

been told where an apparently rare plant is growing and hoping to get to photograph it in the next few days, called something like an oyster plant? can anyone confirm the name?

Good luck on the other ID's, i'll watch with interest as i see plenty of the yellow ones round here and think they are very pretty :)

Taraxacum
03-Jun-08, 21:39
I think they are:

1. Common Butterwort Pinguicula vulgaris
2. Common Dog-violet Viola riviniana
3. Northern Marsh-orchid Dactylorhiza purpurella
4. Common Bird's-foot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus
5. Scurvy-grass Cochlearia officinalis
6. Lousewort Pedicularis sylvatica
7. Cuckoo-flower Cardamine pratensis
8. Greater Stitchwort Stellaria holostea
9. Common Cottongrass Eriophorum angustifolium

A nice collection!

Kenn
04-Jun-08, 09:58
What an amazing plant Emm.
Taraxicum, I bow to your superior knowledge of the area.

the_count
04-Jun-08, 21:21
Hot stuff seabird ....... so where was the orchid lol ya know i want to get pictures:lol: