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Post by ayjay on May 26, 2016 12:31:24 GMT
Despite trawling through three different ID websites and the couple of books I have here, an ID for this one has so far eluded me. I'm sure it's nothing rare as it's quite plentiful in the New forest woodlands, it is in flower now and growing very close to many ditches, definitely a wet ground lover. Maybe smaller than it looks in the pic, flower about 10-12mm across  |
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Post by ayjay on May 26, 2016 15:25:11 GMT
This plant is a little trickster, I found one this afternoon with six petals, that helps to explain some of my fruitless searches.
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Post by aeshna5 on May 26, 2016 16:35:01 GMT
Yellow Pimpernel, Lysimachia nemorum.
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Post by ayjay on May 26, 2016 20:24:59 GMT
Thanks again Aeshna; been almost tearing my hair out trying to find it this afternoon.
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Post by faith on May 27, 2016 8:17:25 GMT
It's really pretty. isn't it – like little yellow stars all over the ground? It's a member of the primrose family (a certain book I could mention would have led you to that . . . ). There is some in my nearby woods that are cream-coloured, rather than bright yellow That is so appealing I 'translocated' a bit to my own garden to see if it was just a trick of the soil, but no, it continues to be cream here as well.
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Post by ayjay on May 27, 2016 20:14:22 GMT
It's really pretty. isn't it – like little yellow stars all over the ground? It's a member of the primrose family (a certain book I could mention would have led you to that . . . ). There is some in my nearby woods that are cream-coloured, rather than bright yellow That is so appealing I 'translocated' a bit to my own garden to see if it was just a trick of the soil, but no, it continues to be cream here as well. I had thought I might ask you about that, I started off using this website but was obviously too ignorant of many of the terms required to achieve an ID. The habitat parameters certainly had me stumped, looking it up on the same website after aeshna's ID it seems i should have just gone for Deciduous or Coniferous woodland, and yet everywhere I've seen it has been really damp and very close to wet ditches and so I tried everything that indicated damp ground, but to no avail. I also struggled with the type of flower and leaf, (despite bringing a specimen home) particularly leaf size, the website above gives a leaf size of 1cm, the one I photographed was at least three times that. I'm probably guilty of skimming the notes a little too quickly but having not found it easily it started to get very frustrating. The question is, could/should/would I have found it any easier with a certain book? |
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