Owner: flower hunt URL:http://www.flowerhunt.blogspot.com Join Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:14:44 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: my challenge is to photograph as many of the 2000+ Sussex flowers and post their photographs on this blog. One photo a day Site statistics:Click here
Cyperus sedge - Carex pseudocyperus 2007-07-20 03:53:00 If you don't know, sedges look a lot like grasses with long green leaves. However, grasses have leaves in two ranks up the stem (i.e. alternate) whereas sedges have leaves in whorls of three. This means that usually the stem of a sedge seems almost triangular. This is a picture of the female part of the flower head. It's a massive, spikly drooping flower head and is fairly unmistakeable, i think. This plant was growing on the side of a ditch at Amberley Wildbrooks.
Brachypodium pinnatum - Tor grass 2007-07-23 04:39:00 This species can become a real problem in chalk grass
land. It's a big tough grass that is undesirable to grazing animals and it can dominate the sward shading out more desirable grasses and forbs. It's leaves are quite a light green that can be seen at some distance standing out against the rest of the grassland
Pineappleweed - Matricaria matricarioides 2007-07-22 13:02:00 Like a daisy the flower is made up of a compound yellow/green head only without the ray florets round the edge. When the plant is crushed it smells strongly like pineapples, hence its name. This plant was introduced to the UK sometime around 1900 and has spread throughout much of England
Red Star Thistle - Centaurea calcitrapa 2007-07-21 18:46:00 The red star thistle is marked as vulnerable by the IUCN and it is apparantly confined to Sussex coastal areas in the UK although the NBN gateway shows a much wider distribution. The flower head has long yellowish spines and pink thistle like flowers. It can be found growing in distrubed habitats, particularly grassland. This plant was growing along a path way subject to a moderate level of disturbance
Autumn Gentian - Gentianella amarella 2007-08-15 03:48:00 As it's name suggests this is a pretty little species that comes out in the Autumn
. Right now is a great time to go looking for them, they can be found growing in chalk grassland all over Sussex.
Dodder - Cuscuta epithymum 2007-08-14 05:31:00 This is a parasitic plant that grows on plants such as heather and clover. It looks like red string trailing across the ground. It's seen here growing on clover at a chalk grassland site but i've seen it before on heathlands too.
Autumn Lady's Tresses - Spiranthes spiralis 2007-08-13 02:39:00 Another beautiful orchid. It's so tiny i almost didn't see it amongst the grasses but when you learn what to look for they seem to be everywhere Read more:Autumn
Field scabious - Knautia arvensis 2007-08-17 03:38:00 The field scabious has petals with four unequal sized lobes. It could be confused with Devil's Bit Scabious but this species has four lobes that are equal in length. Read more:Field
Glow worm larvae? 2007-08-16 06:06:00 Can anyone help me with the identification of this species? I think it could this be the larvae of a glow-worm but i'm not sure. Sorry about the rubbish photo, it kept running around and I couldn't make it keep still and I couldn't get a good picture of its head. It was a pesky little thing.
Away for a while 2007-08-18 07:12:00 I'm in London writing up my dissertation for my masters. London's pretty quiet on the flower front so i think i'll have problems posting every day - especially with all the work i have to do. So, i apologise in advance for my sporadic posting. I may not be able to post for several weeks. Hope you can cope without new pictures whilst i'm away! Victoria
Blackthorn - Prunus spinosa 2007-08-24 05:03:00 I've decided to post a few of my old photographs that i didn't manage to post whilst they were in flower. Blackthorn flowering period has long since gone - in fact i've seen many ripe sloe fruits ready to be picked which seems early to me - but i'm not complaining. Bring on the sloe gin!
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