On 19/05/18 14:04, AnthonyL wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2018 13:18:05 +0100, Jeff Layman
wrote:

On 19/05/18 12:54, AnthonyL wrote:
Spent half the morning trying to identify:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/79018230@N05/41307793635/

East Midlands, south facing rockery, on its own amongst dwarf(?)
strawberries. About 40cm high.

Clues of what to enter on which recommended plant ID site would be
most welcomed too.

So to the subject what is it? Wife thinks it is quite pretty and
wants to leave it in.

Looks like Goat's Beard - tragopogon pratensis (probably ssp minor).
http://www.ukwildflowers.com/Web_pages/tragopogon_pratensis_ssp_minor_goats_beard.htm


Yes that's the one thanks for much, the photo was this morning, now,
just after lunch,the flower is closed - "Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon".

Still difficult to google or use a plant-identifier for a layman.

Well, I knew it was Asteraceae (Compositae in pre-decimal currency), so
it was a matter of looking through the Comps in my book of British flora
(The Illustrated Flora of GB and Northern Europe - Blamey and
Grey-Wilson). It wasn't that difficult to find, as just about all other
Asteraceae have leaves with non-smooth edges, and they are fairly wide
to some extent or other. Goat's Beard has very thin, smooth-edged leaves.

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Jeff