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Post by NellyDee on Aug 23, 2015 14:02:10 GMT
Growing on peat/rocky type soil. the stems with the leaves on growing almost flat to the ground. The miniscule flowers stand individually on thin brew/reddish stalks, quite height in comparison to the rest of the plant. Don't think I have seen it growing on my patch before, but possibly missed it, being so small.
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Post by teasel on Aug 24, 2015 9:48:15 GMT
whitlow grass?
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Post by faith on Aug 24, 2015 10:05:15 GMT
I was up high in the Cairngorms National Park at the weekend and it was up there too! It gets almost everywhere, so even if you haven't seen it before, Nelly, I bet now you have your eye in, you will see it often! It is New Zealand Willowherb, aka Epilobium brunnescens. I'm not sure when it arrived from New Zealand (perhaps someone else knows?) but it has certainly made its presence felt here, although not in the south-east of the UK. It seems to like cooler, damper places, on gravelly sort of ground.
As far as ID is concerned, although it looks superficially like a member of the Campion or Pink family, because of the opposite unstalked leaves, note that it has only four petals – as has whitlow grass, a crucifer – whereas virtually all of the former have five. However, whitlow grass is very early flowering, and the flowers have disappeared after early Spring.
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Post by aeshna5 on Aug 24, 2015 17:12:03 GMT
I was really scratching my head on this one. Of course that's it Faith- probably a couple of decades or more since I knowingly saw this.
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Post by NellyDee on Aug 25, 2015 18:32:50 GMT
Thanks Faith. Something I will keep looking out for. It is so small and easy to miss. I only found this small patch because I was actually trying to photo a fast moving beetle, that went beneath the leaves.
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