Monday 20 April 2020

Of Cuckoo Flowers and Others

We needed to pop into Bexleyheath and whilst walking there and back, noticed quite a few Wild Flowers: unsurprisingly, we slowed down during the walk back Home!

We also added another Bee-Fly to the list submitted to iRecord and spotted five Speckled Wood Butterflies and a Holly Blue Butterfly in Russell Park:


Wild Flower' &c. Species seen included:

Aubretia (self-seeded on a Public Pavement) viz.


Buck's-Horn Plantain
Bulbous Buttercup
California Poppy (self-seeded on a Public Pavement) viz.


Cock's-Foot
Common Fumitory viz.


Common Mouse-Ear
Common Ragwort
Common Sorrel viz.


Cornsalad viz.


Cuckoo Flower (super-amazed to find four Plants in the 'local Monad' growing on an area recently 'improved' or 'destroyed' by the local Council) viz.


Dove's-Foot Crane's-Bill
Jersey Cudweed
Field Madder
Field Wood-Rush
Four-Leaved Allseed
Greater Celandine
Green Alkanet
Hawk's-Beard
Henbit Dead-Nettle
Hoary Cress
Ivy-Leaved Speedwell
Ivy-Leaved Toadflax
Lesser Celandine
Lesser Swine-Cress
Meadow Foxtail viz.


Mugwort
Oxford Ragwort
Pellitory-of-the-Wall
Red Dead-Nettle 
Ribwort Plantain viz.


Rue-Leaved Saxifrage
Small-Flowered Crane's-Bill
Sticky Mouse-Ear
Wood Avens
and Yarrow

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