Clustered Bellflower from last Monday

(Campanula glomerata)

#WildFlowerHour

#WildFlowerHour

The only place I see Coltsfoot, Tussilago farfara, a single specimen a couple of weeks earlier than usual.

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I think we have here

Common Field Speedwell, Veronica persica, though it lacks the smaller white lower lip of that species so #WildFlowerID.

Barren Strawberry, Potentilla sterilis; always early at this location in an ancient holloway.

Lesser Stitchwort, Stellaria graminea, insanely early in my experience hereabouts.

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While I was keeping an eye out for #NewYearPlantHunt items, I also noted this apple tree which grows wild in a field hedge.

It always bears a good crop, and I saw not only that it still bore some fruit that hadn't dropped, but it also had a bough of apparently fresh leaves.

A very slim #NYPH2023 #NewYearPlantHunt selection for #WildFlowerHour this year.

Severe frosts before Christmas and then a lot of rain seems to have done for greater variety - I've recorded 20+ in previous nyphs.

Anyway:

Common Field Speedwell, Veronica persica
Shepherd's Purse, Capella bursa-pastoris
Probably Common Ragwort, Senecio spp.
Daisy, Bellis perennis
Dandelion, Taraxacum spp.
Gorse, Ulex europaeus.

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The slimmest of pickings yesterday, after a week of hard frosts.

Small Scabious, Scabiosa columbaria
Gorse, Ulex europaeus
Dandelion, Taraxacum spp