GardenBanter.co.uk - Help with ID

GardenBanter.co.uk (https://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/)

- United Kingdom (https://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/united-kingdom/)

- - Help with ID (https://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/united-kingdom/198704-help-id.html)

Could anyone tell me what this is, found in Aberdeen, Scotland this week?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ctavish/id.jpg

Quote:

Originally Posted by flymo (Post 929400)

Could anyone tell me what this is, found in Aberdeen, Scotland this week?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ctavish/id.jpg

Looks like alchemila molis, Ladies Mantle although could be another alchemilla species- there are lots of them

A very accomodating plant that will grow almost anywhere
Attractive lime/yellow flowers and slightly hairy leaves which hold drops of water like mercury after a shower.

Only problem - it can seed very freely

"flymo" wrote in message
...

Could anyone tell me what this is, found in Aberdeen, Scotland this
week?
[image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...tavish/id.jpg]

--
flymo

Looks like alchemilla mollis

--
Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall
Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella
and Lapageria rosea cvs
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sacha[_4_] (Post 929451)

On 2011-07-06 23:34:03 +0100, flymo said:

Could anyone tell me what this is, found in Aberdeen, Scotland this
week?
[image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...tavish/id.jpg]

Alchemilla mollis. It's a very pretty, short plant which is perennial
and is good for edging borders. It's flowers seem to help intensify
the colour of others and when rain or dew collects in the leaves, it
looks like your personal cache of diamonds!
--

It looks like Alchemilla mollis and probably is. But there is a large number of Alchemilla species native to the UK, most of them very difficult to tell apart. So in town it's likely to be a garden escape A mollis, up in the hills you're more likely to find one of our natives.