Tripartite end lobe

Red stem





Taraxacum trilobatum



Rosette of the same species



Field Horsetail (Equisetum arvense)



Prickly Sow-thistle (Sonchus asper)





Basal rosette

Shepherd's Purse (Capsella bursa pastoris)

White Blister Rust showing on this specimen.

Apparently not actually a rust but an oomycete

Albugo candida

from

Whiteknights Biodiversity



Taraxacum Sp?









Broad-leaved Dock (Rumex obtusifolius)









Very delicate small-leaved Cotoneaster



Pale Willowherb (Epilobium roseum)





Buck's-horn Plantain (Plantago coronopus)



Mullein Sp Basal rosette



The hairs on the underside of a new leaf



Hairs on the underside of an older leaf



Hairs on the upper surface of the Mullein leaf










Field Madder (Sherardia arvensis)







Corn Parsley (Petrosalineum segetum)



Peach-leaved Bellflower (Campanula persicifolia)





Aster / Symphotrichum Sp



Hoary cress (Lepidium draba) ?







Bloody Crane's-bill (Gernium sanguineum)



Stinking St John's Wort (Hypericum hircinum)



Long petiole



Mature red stem. Yellow tipped spines.

Rubus lindlaieanus ?

I'm not 100% sure I remembered his one correctly

from
Brambles of the British isles







Characteristic angled end to leaf stem.

Equilateral thorns

Rosa stylosa xcanina

Something to think about for next year







Common Orache (Atriplex patula)




Rock Stonecrop (Sedum forsterianum)



Rosa rugosa







Evening Primrose Sp?



Grey Sedge (Carex divulsa divulsa)







Lucerne (Medicago sativa susp sativa)











Wall Lettuce (Mycelis muralis)





Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae)















Completely forgot to write this one down.

Rubus Sp





Chicory (Cichorium intobus)









Prickly lettuce (Lactuca serriola)















Fool's Parsley (Aethusa cynapium)

Tags: Taraxacumtrilobatum, FieldHorsetail, PricklySowthistle, Buck's-hornPlantain, RubusSp, MulleinSp, Fieldmadder, Chicory, PricklyLettuce, Fool'sParsley, CornParsley, Peach-leavedBellflower, Throatwort, AsterSp, HoaryCress, BloodyCranesbill, StinkingStJohn'swort, Rubuslinlaeianus, Rosastylosaxcanina, Shepherd'sPurse, Albugocandida, Broad-leavedDock, CotoneasterSp, PaleWillowherb, CommonOrache, RockStonecrop, Rosarugosa, EveningPrimroseSp, GreySedge, Lucerne, WallLettuce, IvyBee

An beautiful extensive grassland restoration with lots to find.











A belt of Pampas Grass surrounding a small copse of Pines.

The leaves were quite broad thus Cortaderia selloana

There is a another species with long, thin razor edged leaves that grows to 7m

Cortaderia jubata







Broad-margined Mining Bee (Andrena dorsatta)



Amaranth Sp?



Basil Thyme (Clinopodium acinos)



Burnet Saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga)



Field Bugloss (Lycopsis arvensis)?





Puccinia Sp?



Puccinia recondita?





The larvae of the Blackberry Leaf Midge (Dasineura plicatrix) cause galls to form on Bramble.
The young leaf is creased, pleated or buckled with thickened veins.
The larvae are present in the creases briefly in late spring and early summer.

from
Naturespot







Brown Argus (Aricia agestis)





Night-flowering Catchfly (Silene noctiflora)

with six petals rather than five.



Common Centaury (Centaurium erythraea)





Chicory (Cichorium intybus)





Thick-headed Fly Sp (Conopid Fly Sp) attacked by a fungus.

Physocephala rufipes





Dock sp

Becuase of the red colour and the shape of the leaves this gives a clue to the hybrid

Rumex crispus x obtusifolius



Dusky Sallow (Eremobia ochroleuca)







Small-flowered Evening Primrose (Oenathera cambrica)





Euphrasia pseudokerneri



Cross between E pseudokerneri & E confusa



Eyebright Sp (Euphrasia pseudokerneri)



Field Pansy (Viola arvensis)



Field Scabious seed head (Knautia arvensis)



Forester Moth (Ascita statices) on one of its favourite flowers Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis)





Upright Hedge-parley (Torilis japonica)



Knapweed (Centaurea nigra)

Some discussion about whether this could be a hybrid?











Gold-tailed Melitta (Melitta haemorrhoidalis)





Wild Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa)









Aphids on Wild Parsnip

Willow - Parsnip Aphid (Cavariella theobaldii)

Alternates seasonally between two distantly related host plant species.
In this case the woody (Willow) host species , where sexual reproduction takes place and a
herbaceous host (Wild Parsnip) where reproduction is asexual



Fodder Radish (Raphanus sativus. oleiformis)



Wild Clary (Salvia vernbenaca)





White blister rust on Shepherd's Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)

Although apparently it's not actually a rust.

It is an oomycete. Albugo candida

A thick white layer of sporangia that smother contorted and, often, enlarged parts of the plant.

More closely related to Brown Algae than to fungi.

Smothered in white

from

White Knights Biodiversity









Small Scabious Mining Bee (Andrena marginata)



Hoary Mullein (Verbascum pulverulentum)





Great Mullein (Verbascum thapsus)



Dark Mullein (Verbascum nigrum)





White Bryony (Bryony dioica)







Wild Basil (Clinopodiun vulgare)





Willowherb Sp?

Tags: Landscape, PampasGrass, Broad-marginedMiningBee, Amaranthus Sp, FieldBugloss, ConopidFlySp, RumexSp, DuskySallow, BurnetSaxifrage, BrownArgus, Small-floweredEveningPrimrose, EyebrightSp, FieldPansy, ForesterMoth, UprightHedge-parsley, Knapweed, Gold-tailedMelitta, WildParsnip, Willow-ParsnipAphid, FodderRadish, WildClary, Albugocandida, SmallScabiousMiningBee, HoaryMullein, GreatMullein, DarkMullein, WhiteBryony, WildBasil, WillowherbSp, Night-floweringCatchfly, CommonCentaury, Chicory, BasilThyme