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Seen growing in a street, and presumably a garden escape.
http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/IMG_3000.JPG Not Saxifraga (cordate rather cuneate leaves), nor either of the pennywort genera (leaves not peltate), nor Pyrola (leaf venation palmate rather than pinnate). It doesn't seem a bad match for Homogyne alpina, but that's restricted in the wild to Caenlochan NNR in Angus (if still present; the BSBI don't have it as being recorded this century), with a presumably casual record in Northamptonshire, and it's rarely if all cultivated (last seen in Plant Finder in 1997). Anyone recognise it. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message
... Seen growing in a street, and presumably a garden escape. http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/IMG_3000.JPG Not Saxifraga (cordate rather cuneate leaves), nor either of the pennywort genera (leaves not peltate), nor Pyrola (leaf venation palmate rather than pinnate). It doesn't seem a bad match for Homogyne alpina, but that's restricted in the wild to Caenlochan NNR in Angus (if still present; the BSBI don't have it as being recorded this century), with a presumably casual record in Northamptonshire, and it's rarely if all cultivated (last seen in Plant Finder in 1997). Anyone recognise it. Could it be a young Eryngium variifolium? Although it seems a bit large to not have some at least some spiky leaves. -- Jeff |
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In message , Jeff Layman
writes "Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message ... Seen growing in a street, and presumably a garden escape. http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/IMG_3000.JPG Not Saxifraga (cordate rather cuneate leaves), nor either of the pennywort genera (leaves not peltate), nor Pyrola (leaf venation palmate rather than pinnate). It doesn't seem a bad match for Homogyne alpina, but that's restricted in the wild to Caenlochan NNR in Angus (if still present; the BSBI don't have it as being recorded this century), with a presumably casual record in Northamptonshire, and it's rarely if all cultivated (last seen in Plant Finder in 1997). Anyone recognise it. Could it be a young Eryngium variifolium? Although it seems a bit large to not have some at least some spiky leaves. On the one hand, the white veining of the leaves is a match. On the other hand I saw the same taxon (and I think the same plant) in the same place last year. Is it hardy enough to have come through the last winter? -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message
... In message , Jeff Layman writes "Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message ... Seen growing in a street, and presumably a garden escape. http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/IMG_3000.JPG Not Saxifraga (cordate rather cuneate leaves), nor either of the pennywort genera (leaves not peltate), nor Pyrola (leaf venation palmate rather than pinnate). It doesn't seem a bad match for Homogyne alpina, but that's restricted in the wild to Caenlochan NNR in Angus (if still present; the BSBI don't have it as being recorded this century), with a presumably casual record in Northamptonshire, and it's rarely if all cultivated (last seen in Plant Finder in 1997). Anyone recognise it. Could it be a young Eryngium variifolium? Although it seems a bit large to not have some at least some spiky leaves. On the one hand, the white veining of the leaves is a match. On the other hand I saw the same taxon (and I think the same plant) in the same place last year. Is it hardy enough to have come through the last winter? DavesGarden has its hardiness listed as US Zones 4a to 8b!!! The RHS reckons it's "fully hardy". My feeling is that given reasonably good drainage it should have survived last winter. What's the soil like where you found it? With its "velcro" seeds, it would not be difficult for a wandering animal to pick one of its seeds up in a garden and drop that seed where you found it. It was a plant around quite a bit a few years ago, and stocked by many garden centres, but I don't remember seeing it much recently. -- Jeff |
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In message , Jeff Layman
writes "Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message ... In message , Jeff Layman writes "Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message ... Seen growing in a street, and presumably a garden escape. http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/IMG_3000.JPG Not Saxifraga (cordate rather cuneate leaves), nor either of the pennywort genera (leaves not peltate), nor Pyrola (leaf venation palmate rather than pinnate). It doesn't seem a bad match for Homogyne alpina, but that's restricted in the wild to Caenlochan NNR in Angus (if still present; the BSBI don't have it as being recorded this century), with a presumably casual record in Northamptonshire, and it's rarely if all cultivated (last seen in Plant Finder in 1997). Anyone recognise it. Could it be a young Eryngium variifolium? Although it seems a bit large to not have some at least some spiky leaves. On the one hand, the white veining of the leaves is a match. On the other hand I saw the same taxon (and I think the same plant) in the same place last year. Is it hardy enough to have come through the last winter? DavesGarden has its hardiness listed as US Zones 4a to 8b!!! The RHS reckons it's "fully hardy". My feeling is that given reasonably good drainage it should have survived last winter. What's the soil like where you found it? With its "velcro" seeds, it would not be difficult for a wandering animal to pick one of its seeds up in a garden and drop that seed where you found it. I'll have to have another look later in the year, and see what it looks like then. But if you look at the photograph, it appears to be growing in the edge of a path, rather than the grass verge. It was a plant around quite a bit a few years ago, and stocked by many garden centres, but I don't remember seeing it much recently. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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