Sunday 19 February 2012

Colt's-foot, Lesser Celandine and Marsh Marigold - it's official!

I've seen them all in flower this week. Hooray! Last Sunday at Warebeth, Colt's-foot was in flower in a weedy field next to the cemetery wall - and there were many open flower-heads. Today I managed to see Lesser Celandine along the banks of the Wideford Burn and Marsh Marigold just in land of the burn and surrounded by carpets of Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage that in itself was thinking hard about flowering. And this is just the start - there's plenty left to come.

Colt's-foot

Marsh Marigold

Lesser Celandine



Saturday 11 February 2012

Five flowers of freshwater and wet grasslands - the latest of Anne's plates

Here's the next wetland flowers plate.......

From top left, clockwise, Lesser Spearwort, Marsh Arrowgrass, Marsh Cudweed, Butterbur and Marsh Thistle.