Flowers, seedheads and rosettes of Sheepβs bit on the cliff wall of Mevagissey Harbour today.
Jasione montana
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Flowers, seedheads and rosettes of Sheepβs bit on the cliff wall of Mevagissey Harbour today.
Jasione montana
Yes, they do smell nice. Even nicer smell, was a patch of Spearmint nearby, smells just like the gum!
03.08.2025 22:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes, small, 4 petalled, white cabbage family flowers. Best not eat wild ones as most watercourses are polluted nowadays.
03.08.2025 22:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A rural road going under a disused railway near St Dennis Cornwall today
03.08.2025 21:51 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Brooklime flowering on a wet road verge. Mid Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour
Veronica beccabunga
Wood Sage flowering on a rural road verge in Mid Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour
Teucrium scorodonia
Chinese Bramble in fruit, spread from nearby plantings on an industrial estate onto a nearby road verge.
Rubus tricolor
A Red-legged Shield-bug, Mid Cornwall today.
03.08.2025 19:50 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A nice portrait of the leaves of Ivy-leaved Water Crowfoot in a stream. Mid Cornwall today.
Ranunculus hederacea
Canary Grass on a woodland path. I traced its origins to birdseed put out for wild birds nearby. Pale Flax was also nearby.
Phalaris canariensis
Yellow Bartsia in a surprise habitat of a building site. Mid Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour
Parentucelia viscosa
Watercress in a small stream, Mid Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour
Nasturtium officinale
Water Mint in flower, Mid Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour
Mentha aquatica
Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil in damp grassland, Mid Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour
Lotus pedunculatus
Jersey Cudweed, on overgrown car park aggregate. Mid Cornwall today.
Laphangium luteoalbum
An Elephant Hawkmoth caterpillar on an Epilobium foodplant. Mid Cornwall today.
03.08.2025 19:42 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Oval Sedge I think. Mid Cornwall today.
Carex leporina
Excellent
02.08.2025 15:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Finishing off Cornwall Botany for July at sylvatica2022.blogspot.com I hope you like the selection of plants featured.
31.07.2025 22:05 β π 31 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0A retail park Great Mullein atop a Cornish hedge in Bodmin today.
Verbascum thapsus
Phone pics of Chamomile in the short turf of a church car park. St Eval Cornwall today.
Chamaemelum nobile
The variant of False Oat Grass with basal bulbs. Harlyn Bay Cornwall today.
Arrhenatherum elatius var bulbosum
An app is telling me this is a Common Carder Bee, which it probably is. North Cornwall today.
27.07.2025 21:54 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It was good enough for me to stop and photograph it, much deeper colour than usual.
27.07.2025 21:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes, many are white too.
27.07.2025 21:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Scenery from today's recording walk in North Cornwall showing different habitats.
27.07.2025 20:17 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The seed pods of Tufted Vetch, North Cornwall today.
Vicia cracca
Swinecress in seed, North Cornwall today.
Lepidium coronopus
Mating Dock Bugs on Broad-leaved Dock. North Cornwall today.
27.07.2025 20:15 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nettle-leaved Goosefoot from an arable field corner that escaped spraying. North Cornwall today.
Chenopodiastrum murale