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| poppies and daisies |
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| thyme |
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| wild garlic |
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| ? Wood sage ? |
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| gladioli - gladiolus byzantinus (I think) |
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| Salsify, Oyster plant/Tragoponon Porrifolius |
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| Vetch. (?southern vetchling?) |
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
Every colour under the sun
So many flowers blooming out on campo at the moment, every colour imaginable and more opening every day. This is just a snapshot from this mornings walk, some I can identify and have captioned .....if you know what anything else is please let me know.
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Hello Vicki and John, The Southern vetchling is a wood pea - Lathyrus heterophyllus, the white un-named daisy is Anthemis montana, the other un-named white flower is a white campion, aka bladder campion - Silene vulgaris, your wood sage I don't think this is a sage - they have whorled leaves up the stem with the flowers in the axils, they also have square stems. Does your plant smell of anything? The best I can make out from the photo, is Italian Toadflax if it is 50cm + tall, smaller is the Pyrenean Toadflax 20 cm tall, Linaria italica or pyrenaica. Both occur up to 2200 m. I did wonder if it was a Broomrape - parasitic plant, but looked most like the Linaria, the plant on your photo looks familiar to me,tip of the tongue variety, it is most annoying! I imagine the air is deliciously scented with herbs, especially as your climate is warmer than ours. The local farmers have been spreading silage and our air is scented with quite a different smell ! Speak soon, regards Penelope.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for all this, I’ll try and get a better clearer photo of the toadflax to make identification easier. It is quite a low plant but wide. Not sure if it smells of anything though. The book I have describes what I thought was woodsage as a member of the mint family....teucrium scorodonia. Most of the plants I have identified come from a book called “a selection of wild flowers of southern spain” by Betty Molesworth Allen, unfortunately not all the photos are very clear as the flowers are quite often growing amongst others. Sometimes I can’t find anything to match what I see when out, but the book is only a selection of what grows. You probably know more!
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