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On 03/07/2012 02:23, Sheila wrote:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/6373089...in/photostream Might be a Tufted Vetch. Might be another type of vetch. They are difficult to tell apart even with a good photo. I would have expected to see tendrils at the ends of the leaves, but can't see any even when enlarging the photo. Strange. Could you give us an idea of where you saw it, and also the exact size of a flower and leaf? -- Jeff |
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In message , Jeff Layman
writes On 03/07/2012 02:23, Sheila wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/6373089...in/photostream Might be a Tufted Vetch. Might be another type of vetch. They are difficult to tell apart even with a good photo. I would have expected to see tendrils at the ends of the leaves, but can't see any even when enlarging the photo. Strange. With practice the commoner vetches are fairly easy to tell apart. Tufted vetch has a dense inflorescence of indigo flowers borne on a long stalk. Bush vetch has a gappy inflorescence of magenta flowers without the stalk. Common vetch has pairs of scarlet flowers in the leaf nodes. Hairy tare and smooth tare have small white, blueish or purpleish flowers - the easiest way to tell them apart is to count the seeds in the pods - hairy tare has 2 seeds per pod, and smooth tare 4 seeds per pod. This however appears not to be a vetch - the leaves are imparipinnate, rather than paripinnate. (The other genus with paripinnate leaves is Lathyrus - the peas and vetchlings.) The inflorescence of sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia) is more like that of a lupin. I'm going to plump for goat's rue (Galega officinalis). (Both plants are rare in my neck of the woods - I've found sainfoin at 3 sites, and never found goat's rue in the wild.) Could you give us an idea of where you saw it, and also the exact size of a flower and leaf? -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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On 03/07/2012 11:22, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
In message , Jeff Layman writes On 03/07/2012 02:23, Sheila wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/6373089...in/photostream Might be a Tufted Vetch. Might be another type of vetch. They are difficult to tell apart even with a good photo. I would have expected to see tendrils at the ends of the leaves, but can't see any even when enlarging the photo. Strange. With practice the commoner vetches are fairly easy to tell apart. Tufted vetch has a dense inflorescence of indigo flowers borne on a long stalk. Bush vetch has a gappy inflorescence of magenta flowers without the stalk. Common vetch has pairs of scarlet flowers in the leaf nodes. Hairy tare and smooth tare have small white, blueish or purpleish flowers - the easiest way to tell them apart is to count the seeds in the pods - hairy tare has 2 seeds per pod, and smooth tare 4 seeds per pod. This however appears not to be a vetch - the leaves are imparipinnate, rather than paripinnate. (The other genus with paripinnate leaves is Lathyrus - the peas and vetchlings.) The inflorescence of sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia) is more like that of a lupin. I'm going to plump for goat's rue (Galega officinalis). (Both plants are rare in my neck of the woods - I've found sainfoin at 3 sites, and never found goat's rue in the wild.) Good ID. I'd also thought of sainfoin and rejected it. Never considered goat's rue. I don't remember if I've seen it in the wild, but I would have rejected it based on the illustration in "The Illustrated Flora of Britain and Northern Europe" (Blamey/Grey-Wilson). The text correctly refers to it as "White to pale purplish lilac", whereas the illustration has deep pink flowers! Interestingly, "The Wild Flower Key" (Rose) doesn't even have an illustration, but notes that it is like sainfoin, but has white to pale purple flowers. -- Jeff |
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In message , Jeff Layman
writes On 03/07/2012 11:22, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote: In message , Jeff Layman writes On 03/07/2012 02:23, Sheila wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/6373089...in/photostream Might be a Tufted Vetch. Might be another type of vetch. They are difficult to tell apart even with a good photo. I would have expected to see tendrils at the ends of the leaves, but can't see any even when enlarging the photo. Strange. With practice the commoner vetches are fairly easy to tell apart. Tufted vetch has a dense inflorescence of indigo flowers borne on a long stalk. Bush vetch has a gappy inflorescence of magenta flowers without the stalk. Common vetch has pairs of scarlet flowers in the leaf nodes. Hairy tare and smooth tare have small white, blueish or purpleish flowers - the easiest way to tell them apart is to count the seeds in the pods - hairy tare has 2 seeds per pod, and smooth tare 4 seeds per pod. This however appears not to be a vetch - the leaves are imparipinnate, rather than paripinnate. (The other genus with paripinnate leaves is Lathyrus - the peas and vetchlings.) The inflorescence of sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia) is more like that of a lupin. I'm going to plump for goat's rue (Galega officinalis). (Both plants are rare in my neck of the woods - I've found sainfoin at 3 sites, and never found goat's rue in the wild.) Good ID. I'd also thought of sainfoin and rejected it. Never considered goat's rue. I don't remember if I've seen it in the wild, but I would have rejected it based on the illustration in "The Illustrated Flora of Britain and Northern Europe" (Blamey/Grey-Wilson). The text correctly refers to it as "White to pale purplish lilac", whereas the illustration has deep pink flowers! Interestingly, "The Wild Flower Key" (Rose) doesn't even have an illustration, but notes that it is like sainfoin, but has white to pale purple flowers. I nearly rejected it based on the illustration in "The Wild Flowers of the British Isles" (Garrard/Streeter), which shows the leaflets as having a different (more pointed) shape, but I checked out some images on the web, as there was nothing else in the book that it could be. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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