Cuckoo Flower. Lady's Smock (Cardamine pratensis)





 Cuckooflower has a rosette of leaves at its base and an upright stem that bears the delicate, small, pale pink or mauve flowers. Each flower has four petals, although double-flowered varieties do appear.

Cabbage Family

10/5/15
Double flowers
Old peoples home


1/5/15




26/4/14
Park
Found at the boggy bit in the middle of the park.




17/5/14
Park
Double flower

Flower




Stem leaf


16/4/14
Park

This is one of the first flowers recorded last year when I started looking at Wild Flowers, it's so nice to see it coming back. LINK









28/5/13
Found at park.


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Flower

Leaf


Environment


Ramsons (Allium ursinum)

Wild flower 

flower
28/5/13
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Flower

Environment

Lady's-mantle (Alchemilla)

Wild flower 



, 27/5/13
Park/ old weather pitch.









Grape Hyacinth (Muscari)

Monday, 27 May 2013






19/4/14
Park
Same place,
Garden escape 






27/5/13
Found near park (probable a Garden escape )
Further reading:  


Ivy-leaved toadflax (Cymbalaria muralis)

Monday, 27 May 2013




2013

It spreads quickly, growing up to 5 cm (2.0 in) tall – it commonly grows in rock and wall crevices, and along footpaths. The leaves are evergreen, rounded to heart-shaped, 2.5 to 5 cm (1.0 to 2.0 in) long and wide, 3–7-lobed, alternating on thin stems. The flowers are very small, similar in shape to snapdragon flowers. Flowers from May to September.
 Plantain Family,
Found at park on council yard wall.
6/1/13




Hairy Bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta)



Wild flower 



  1. Cardamine hirsuta
  2. Hairy bittercress, Cardamine hirsuta, is an annual or biennial plant native to Europe and Asia, but also present in North America. The plant is a member of the mustard family, and is edible as a bitter herb. Wikipedia

Cabbage Family
31/7/14
Park/Patch of land

Flower

Leaves


Stem Leaves

25/5/13
Park

Plant

Flowers

Soft Rush (Juncus effusus)

Rush


22/5/13
Found at the park in the middle at the boggy part of the park.

Soft rush is a thin, tuft-forming rush that grows in wet woodlands, marshes, ditches and grasslands. It has smooth, green stems, which can be easily peeled to produce the pith. Traditionally, this was soaked in fat and used as wicks in household lamps as it was a cheaper alternative to candlelight; this practice was revived during the Second World War in some rural areas. As with other sedges and rushes, soft rush spreads with creeping rhizomes (underground stems); it flowers from May to July.





Yellow Iris (Iris pseudacorus)

Wild flower 


Further reading
Iris Family


22/5/13
Found at the park next to the pond in the middle of the park, a small area were fresh water runs of into the pond, the water cress is here as well.



5/6/13
These Iris are round the edge of the pond,at the park.


The iris has now come into flower around the pond and at the boggy patch.






Flower
28/7/13
Seed pod

Seed pod