A Wild Flower' Walk

We arranged a Wild Flower' Walk via Twitter: just four of us but our number included a proper Botanist. 

Meeting beside the Church of St John the Baptist, Erith, we walked down Church Manorway to the Footpath linking it to the Thames Path: where we walked a few hundred yards upstream before turning round and walking back along the Thames Path to Corinthian Manorway.

Wild Flower' species seen included:

Musk Stork's-Bill

Knotted Hedge-Parsley

Round-Leaved Crane’s-Bill

Wall Barley

Ribwort Plantain

Bristly Oxtongue

Dove’s-Foot Crane’s-Bill

Narrow-Leaved Ragwort

Common Bramble

Wild Mignonette

Oxtongue Hawkweed

Black Medick

White Melilot

Sow-Thistle

Creeping Cinquefoil

Goat’s-Beard

Common Field-Speedwell

Hedge Mustard

Common Mallow

Bird’s-Foot Trefoil

Potentilla sp.

Perennial Wall Rocket

Lucerne (possible)

Water Bent

Ribbed Melilot (probable)

Fiddle Dock viz.

Purple Toadflax

Yarrow

White Campion

Dandelion

Buddleia

Daisy

Mugwort

Groundsel

Cock’s-Foot

Common Mouse-Ear

Ivy Broomrape viz.

Red Poppy

Yorkshire Fog

Green Alkanet

White Clover

False Oat-Grass

Oxford Ragwort

Field Bindweed

Curled-Leaved Dock

Common Knapweed

Grey Field-Speedwell

Wall Speedwell

Spear Thistle

Wild Radish

White Dead-Nettle

Tufted/Hairy Vetch

Prickly Lettuce (including the lobe-leaved variety)

Mayweed (Scented?)

Lesser Swine-Cress

Fennel

Goat’s-Rue

Shepherd’s-Purse

Hedgerow Crane's-Bill

White Campion

Herb Robert

Creeping Thistle

Scarlet Pimpernel

Giant Hogweed

Lesser Stitchwort

Hoary Cress

Sea Aster

Sea Beet

Sea Couch Grass

White Stonecrop

Biting Stonecrop

Sea Plantain viz.

Lesser Sea-Spurrey viz.

Bladder Wrack Seaweed (assumed)

Sea Milkwort viz.

English Scurvygrass

Sea Arrowgrass

Hemlock Water Dropwort viz.

Sea Club Rush

Spear-Leaved Orache

Golden-Samphire viz. 

Sand Lucerne

White Bryony viz.

Bladder Campion

Black Horehound

Pellitory-of-the-Wall

Bittersweet

and Wood Avens

Bird species seen included:

Canada Goose

Kestrel

Linnet

Mallard

Oystercatcher

and Shelduck

Butterfly' species seen: Common Blue, Holly Blue and Small White...