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Thread: Cliff top wild flowers 31-5-08

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    Default Cliff top wild flowers 31-5-08




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    Default Wild Flowers Cliffs at Lybster 31-5-08

    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


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    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

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    Default Methinks

    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

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    Default oyster plant

    Mertensia maritima or oysterplant




    Quote Originally Posted by Tugmistress View Post
    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

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    Default Some Names

    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!

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    What an amazing plant Emm.
    Taraxicum, I bow to your superior knowledge of the area.

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    Hot stuff seabird ....... so where was the orchid lol ya know i want to get pictures
    If its profound what was the name of the golfer and what did he find?

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