Friday 1 March 2024

Wild Flowers seen flowering locally during December 2023, January 2024 and February 2024 (the Winter)

Although we won't be participating in the Wildflower Society', Winter Plant Hunt, we have decided to record Wild Flowers seen in flower locally, as a matter of general curiosity. So here goes (individual species will only be included once viz. in the month they were first seen):

December 2023:

Annual Mercury
Bristly Oxtongue
Campion (a pink version)
Common Chickweed
Daisy viz.


Dandelion
Golden Samphire
Groundsel
Hawkweed Oxtongue
Ivy-Leaved Toadflax
Jersey Cudweed
Narrow-Leaved Ragwort 
Oxford Ragwort
Red Dead-Nettle
Scentless Mayweed
Shepherd's-Purse
Sow-Thistle
White Dead-Nettle
and Yarrow

January 2024:

Hazel (catkins)
Lesser Celandine
and Sweet Violet

February 2024:

Alexanders
Coltsfoot viz.


Common Field Speedwell
Common Fumitory
Common Whitlowgrass viz.


Early Dog-Violet
Goat Willow (aka Pussy Willow) viz. 


Grape Hyacinth
Green Alkanet
Hairy Bitter-Cress
Ivy-Leaved Speedwell
Primrose
Rue-Leaved Saxifrage viz.


Three-Cornered Garlic/Leek
White Ramping-Fumitory viz.


and Wild Daffodil (Lesnes Abbey Woods)

Resulting in a total of thirty-eight (38) species.

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