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
Agrimony 2007-06-16 08:41:00 Found growing in improved pasture in the valley of Anchor Bottom
Pencilled cranesbill - Geranium versicolor 2007-06-15 08:46:00 Oh man, the picture isn't really in focus. Nevermind, you can get the picture. This species is a garden escape, and introduced species. Its veins are deep purple making it look as if it has been drawn on in pencil and the petals are notched at the end. The flower can be white to pink. I found it in growing in a scrubby wasteland area at the back of some gardens.
Horseshoe vetch - Hippocrepis comosa 2007-06-14 06:30:00 Horseshoe vetch can be found growing in chalk grassland and is the foodplant for the chalkhill blue and the adonis blue butterfly. The leaves of this vetch have a small, inverted notch at the end of them and the yellow flowers grow in a ring. They can look quite similar to birds foot trefoil but this species has only five leaves on each stalk and the leaves don't have an inverted notch. Also the flowers are often tinged with red. Because of this yellow and red colouration birds foot trefoil is also known as eggs and bacon! I found this plant growing at Anchor Bottom, just north of Shoreham cement works. It wasn't wildly abundant but there was enough to support the many adonis blue butterflies i saw flittering about.
Elder - Sambucus nigra 2007-06-13 10:21:00 Elder tree growing in my back garden. I love the smell that these flowers give off. Everywhere i go there seems to be elder bursting into flower. Apparanly rabbits hate this plant so you can often find it growing close to their warrens.I'm tempted to try and pick some elder and make some cordial out of it but i'm worried it would be too polluted coming from a city garden. Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall had a recipe in last week's guardian showing you how to make battered elderflowers... sounds a bit greasy to me! Find the recipe here: Guardian Read more:Elder
Common Spotted Orchid - Dactylorhiza fuchsii 2007-06-12 10:05:00 There were so many purple spotted orchids at Anchor Bottom the other day, it was incredible. There were festoons of them. There were also fragrant orchids, some early pyramidal orchids poking up as well as the one bee orchid i spotted. This is a photo of a particularly large and fine looking specimen i came across. There are also green winged orchids present at the site but they flowered about a month earlier. I didn't have a chance to go out and have a look at them so sadly i missed them. Better luck next year. Read more:Common
Pyramidal Orchid - Anacamptis pyramidalis 2007-06-10 09:24:00 Just starting to come into flower now. This species can be distinguished because it is a much brighter, deeper pink and the flowers are all compressed to the top into one pyramid shape - hence the name.
Fragrant Orchid - Gymnadenia conopsea 2007-06-09 09:11:00 Seen at Anchor Bottom. These smell amazing right now. The whole grassland was blanketed in their scent. This flower has deeply keeled leaves that look like they have been folded in half.
Kidney Vetch - Anthylllis vulneraria 2007-06-08 09:29:00 This plant has flowers that look like they have been covered in a fluffy wrapping. They almost look like they have fluffy trousers or bloomers! The leaves are long and thin and curved slightly. There seems to be loads of it growing at Anchor Bottom at the moment Read more:Kidney
Common rock rose - Helianthemum chamaecistus 2007-06-07 09:21:00 I really love the way the petals of this flower look like they have been crumpled up. Like old washing or a paper bag. The leaves are quite hairy underneath and long stipules at their base. I found this growing on chalk grassland but it can also be found on acid soils and in scrub. Read more:Common
Yellow wort - Blackstonia perfoliata 2007-06-06 09:15:00 This is such a fantastic plant. I love the way it looks like someone has taken a spike and threaded it through the leaves. Like a floral kebab! I wonder what evolutionary advantage those leaves have? This was found growing at Anchor Bottom, near Shoreham, Sussex Read more:Yellow
Dropwort - Filipendula vulgaris 2007-06-05 09:19:00 I love the contrast between the pink tips of the flower buds and the white petals
Small scabious - Scabiosa columbaria 2007-06-04 09:37:00 There are three different scabious species in the UK. This one is the small scabious because the petals on each individual flower consist of five unequal lobes Read more:Small
Amphibious bistort - Polygonum amphibium 2007-06-03 09:47:00 Sorry about the rubbish photo, i couldn't get any closer to the plant and then my camera died. I love the name of this species. This plant is either found in freshwater or growing close to it on banks. When it grows out of the water the leaves are much more rounded. Read more:Amphibious
Yellow water lily - Nuphar lutea 2007-06-02 09:55:00 I don't think there's much that you could mistake this species with. There's a similar species called least water
lilly but this plant has flowers that are less than 4cm whereas N.lutea has flowers larger than 4cm. I found this growing in the lake at Wood's Mill Read more:Yellow
Yorkshire fog - Holcus lanatus 2007-06-01 10:03:00 This is probably one of the first grass species i ever learnt to identify. The grass is very soft and furry and has red stripes at its base. This was seen growing in a pasture field Read more:Yorkshire
Liverwort - Marchantia polymorpha 2007-05-29 10:13:00 Ok, It's not a flower... but the male sexual parts that you can see in this picture look a bit like flowers. And i really like this plant so i stuck it in anyway! I found it growing in the pavement cracks at Sussex University
White Clover 2007-05-28 10:18:00 Found growing in an improved pasture field Read more:White
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Grass species 2007-05-27 10:27:00 another unknown species
, it's an agricultural crop though, i think
Veronica species 2007-05-26 10:25:00 not sure which one this is, the one that has one petal paler than the others. will check the species
asap Read more:Veronica
Poppy people 2007-05-24 07:29:00 these are some poppy people
my friend Tracy made out of poppy flower heads Read more:Poppy
Elm 2007-04-28 02:38:00 This is a photo I took of some elm seeds. I'm not sure what elm species this is. The elm was growing in Stanmer Park, close to Brighton. At the moment the floor seems to be littered with these seeds everywhere I go. I love the contrast between the colours.I guess i'm lucky because Brighton is one of the main strongholds for Elm. Elm has been seriously infected by Dutch Elm's Disease which has resulted in the death of Elm's all across the country. Just down the bottom of my road there is a huge avenue of majestic elm trees. It's sad to think that in a few years these trees may also have become infected and may have to be cut down.
Perfoliate St Johns Wort 2007-06-18 04:52:00 This species has pairs of opposite facing leaves which, when held up to the light, appear to have tiny pinpricked holes pierced straight through them. I found this growing on the edge of a woodland ride at Abbot's wood, near Hailsham Read more:Johns
Bramble - Rubus fruticosus 2007-06-17 02:50:00 Ah the bramble, how British! Apparantly bramble isn't just one species but there are over 200 different bramble species that only real specialists can tell apart. All these species are lumped together under Rubus fruticosus agg. so that us non-specialists can record it where we see it.
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