Dave
@sylvatica2024
Self taught botanist living in Cornwall, formerly Kent. Hoping to spread the joys of nature to others through my posts. Cornwall blog at: Kent blog at:
An #InvasivePlants contender is Montbretia. Now found in almost all areas of Cornwall and in some places forming huge mats stifling all other species (usually coastal cliffs). However, in flower, it looks great. Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora
The small Pencilled Cranesbill (about the size of Hedgerow CB) naturalised on a Cornwall hedge today, and the naturalised pink flowered garden escape called French Cranesbill, near Wadebridge today. Geranium versicolor Geranium endressii
I sometimes wonder if this plant should be on the Cornwall Rare Plant Register as I rarely see it. A White Dead-nettle, exceptionally common elsewhere in the UK. Near Wadebridge this evening. Lamium album
A bit of an out of focus Jersey Cudweed. But what is extraordinary about this one is that it was growing on someone's garage floor, (though it had no door). As such, it was out of range of any rain at all but still managed to grow and flower. Laphangium luteoalbum
Most plant species I saw today were suffering badly from being droughted, including this Common Toadflax. Hopefully, the few flowering will live long enough to set seed. Near Wadebridge today. Linaria vulgaris
Reflexed Stonecrop often jumps the garden wall and naturalises in Cornwall as it had done here. A pretty stonecrop, it often escapes in cemeteries too. Petrosedum rupestre
A Red Admiral and a Comma butterfly, some of the many species I saw this afternoon near Wadebridge. Look closely at the Comma and you can see the "comma" mark in white near the base of the lower wing.
Biting and White Stonecrops from Burlawn near Wadebridge today. Sedum acre and Sedum album
I'm fairly sure this is Confused Bridewort, a new species for me. Planted in a nearby garden, it had suckered underground and popped up along, on and by a roadside wall, thus becoming independent of the parent. Spiraea x pseudosalicifolia
A magnificent 2m+ tall candelabra style Dense-flowered Mullein on a roadside bank near Wadebridge today. Leaves decurrent down stem, yellow hairs on anthers. Verbascum densiflorum
Brooklime flowering and thriving in the drought on a roadside wet flush near Wadebridge this evening. Veronica beccabunga
Finally, a pavement plant Canary Grass in Wadebridge, Cornwall today. Phalaris canariensis
A new alien species for me today was Japanese Honeysuckle growing along a rural trackside. Wadebridge, Cornwall. Lonicera japonica
Himalayan Honeysuckle is another often seen naturalised alien plant here. Wadebridge, Cornwall today. Leycesteria formosa
I found around 20 small plants of Tall Tutsan naturalised and self seeding on an imported slate aggregate in an industrial yard in Wadebridge, Cornwall today. Leaves smelled rank when crushed, but sepals remain on the flowers, so ruling out Stinking Tutsan. Hypericum x inodorum
There's always something exotic to find naturalised in Cornwall thanks to its mild winter climate. Here's an Orange Day Lily down a rural track near Wadebridge today. Hemerocallis fulva
The smallest Fool's Watercress I've ever seen, by a gate in a damp pasture, presumably flooded in winter. Wadebridge, Cornwall today. Helosciadium nodiflorum
Young fruits developing on the native Spindle tree. By late summer, these turn orange and bright pink. Wadebridge, Cornwall today. Euonymus europaeus
Guernsey Fleabane now flowering on pavements in Wadebridge, Cornwall. Erigeron sumatrensis
A rather large and bushy Remote Sedge from Wadebridge, Cornwall today. Carex remota
Tufted Hair Grass from a rather dry bog on Bodmin Moor last Sunday. Deschampsia cepsitosa
Marsh Cudweed now flowering in drier places. Bodmin Moor on Sunday. Gnaphalium uliginosum
Marsh Speedwell, Trailing Tormentil, Corn Spurrey and New Zealand Pygmyweed from Colliford Lake, Cornwall this week for #wildflowerhour
Lesser Skullcap from a Bodmin Moor bog today. #wildflowerhour Scutellaria minor
Ragged Robin and Annual Pearlwort flowering on the Bodmin Moor today. #wildflowerhour Silene flos-cuculi Sagina apetala
A big clump of Blinks in flower (which are tiny) in a dried up puddle on Bodmin Moor today. #wildflowerhour Montia fontana
Bog Pimpernel turning one bog pink. Bodmin Moor today. #wildflowerhour Lysimachia tenella
Redshank flowers for a long time as it usually only opens up one flower at a time, as shown here. Bodmin Moor today for #wildflowerhour Persicaria maculosa