Saturday 29 September 2018

Allotment' Botanicals

To take a break from Digging and Tidying-Up on the Allotment, we wandered around looking for Butterflies, Hoverflies &c., and happily chanced upon a single Lucerne, aka Alfalfa, Plant viz.




It seems unlikely it was introduced deliberately so we must assume it arrived by chance.

And on seeing this Plant it occurred to us that it was High-Time that we Listed the Wild Flowers (aka Weeds to some Allotment Holders) we have seen on the Allotments viz.

Annual Mercury
Black Horehound
Black Medick
Buddleia
Common Bramble
Common Chickweed
Common Field-Speedwell
Common Fumitory viz.


Common Mallow
Common Nettle
Common Orache
Common Ragwort
Common Vetch
Couch Grass
Cow Parsley
Creeping Thistle
Dandelion
Daisy
Dove's-Foot Crane's-Bill
Fat Hen
Field Bindweed
Fleabane viz.


Gallant/Shaggy Soldier
Garlic Mustard
Groundsel
Hedge Bedstraw
Henbit Dead-Nettle viz.


Hoary Cress
Ivy-Leaved Toadflax
Knotgrass
Lesser Celandine
Lucerne, aka Alfalfa
Nipplewort
Petty Spurge
Red Dead-Nettle
Red Valerian (also the White flowered version) 
Redshank
Ribwort Plantain
Scarlet Pimpernel
Shepherd's-Purse
Sow-Thistle
Sun Spurge
Sweet Violet
Wall Barley
White Clover
and Yarrow viz.


With hopefully more Species to be added in due course.

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