What is this bush/tree/plant?

[two sheds]

Another one peoples: from valley again looks similar and possibly sedum again?

 

[gentlegreen]

Another one peoples: from valley again looks similar and possibly sedum again?

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looks a bit buttercuppy (ranunculacea)

 

[gentlegreen]

Three years after encountering reseda lutea "dyer's weld" for the first time - in the cabbage family, like woad, (but used as a yellow dye, and in combination you get Lincoln green ..) - and a load of it has sprung up on a dry bank outside an office development near where I work.
I'm growing its garden relative "mignonette" though it's not managing to compete with my industrial quantity of nicotianas, my brugmansia and trachelospermum. Next time the neighbours are out, I'll pop next door and get my nose up close and personal ...

I wonder if the wild plant is loose in the area because of its industrial uses - like teasels are ...

 

[gentlegreen]

I foolishly told my crafty colleague and she wants me to plunder them
I'll leave plenty of leaves in case they want to go perennial.

To be fair, I suspect I'm the only one who appreciates them and they'll likely get strimmed at some point ...

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[campanula]

Another one peoples: from valley again looks similar and possibly sedum again?

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Not a plant I have personally grown but mazus reptans alba is a popular carpeting plant.

 

[two sheds]

them and buttercups look close but the leaves don't quite look right. I'll try to take a better photo.

 

[heinous seamus]

I took a photo of something similar the other day.

 

[campanula]

ooooh on the tip of my....
frantically searches for Keble-Martin

 

[two sheds]

yes that's much better photo and looks like - spikey little leaves, ever so sweet little flowers

mine was in a valley with high levels of heavy metal concentration so poor soil, with a lot of thrift around that also thrives on coastlines with salty soil that other plants don't do well on.

 

[gentlegreen]

Oh I can see the mintyness now.
Does it have square stems ?
Are the flowers asymmetrical ?

 

[two sheds]

I shall check tomorrow
Looked symmetrical to me.

 

[StoneRoad]

I've had a scan into my Keble Martin ...

Plate 64 - Euphrasia brevipila , commonly known as Short-haired Eyebright.

 

[heinous seamus]

Good shout. I didn't even notice the lilac streaks on the flowers but when I zoom in I can see them.

 

[gentlegreen]

Wow.
A lovely new parasitic orobanche :}

 

[gentlegreen]

I'm guessing these are wild lettuce ...



And wild chicory - in this instance not deliberately planted ? Though the flowers are pretty ..

 

[two sheds]

I've had a scan into my Keble Martin ...

Plate 64 - Euphrasia brevipila , commonly known as Short-haired Eyebright.

Yep similarly I went and had a look and there were no lilac streaks as I got closer and closer and then oooh lilic streaks. Really good spot

I miss my Keeble Martin - I've bought at least three copies and lost all of them somehow I don't really understand. Unless my last copy is hiding somewhere.

 

[StoneRoad]

I bought my hardback copy of K-M as a student in the mid - 1970s, on the advice of a geography / ecology lecturer.

The binding is beginning to suffer a little, but I don't take it in the field these days. I've a couple of "pocket" floras for expeditions, and I take pictures for the ones I really can't recognise.

 

[campanula]

I miss my Keeble Martin - I've bought at least three copies and lost all of them somehow I don't really understand. Unless my last copy is hiding somewhere.

I keep one in my horsebox and one at home (which I cannot find). My eldest 'borrowed' one .
and I gave a copy to daughter...so that's at least 4 copies which have passed through my hands. Francis Rose has a decent publication (The Wild Flower Key) which, similarly to KM, lists plants by family...but in truth, KM is really the unrivalled one for all idents.

I collect and use eyebright for my collie (which is why it was so tantalisingly familiar...

Since getting a smart phone, I have tried various identification apps...all hopeless, complete waste of time. Plant This didn't even recognise geranium wallichianum 'Rozanne' - surely the most photographed and easily identifiable hardy geranium ever...coming up with g.sylvaticum, even g.sanguineum (!)...and if you put in a plant which veers ever so slightly from the common top100 plants (such as calceolaria mexicana)...absolutely useless.

 

[gentlegreen]

Reseda lutea produces a shitload of ripe-looking seed - even with the seed pods still green.
I may have to seek out some waste ground near where I work to deliberately infest in case my colleague takes a liking to it...
I went next door while my neighbours were out and stuck its supposed fragrant cousin - reseda odorata up my nose and couldn't detect anything ...

 

[gentlegreen]

So I responsibly harvest some off each of the plants on Friday and cycling home this evening I see they've mown the lot
I could have harvested 10 times as much as I did ...

I'm definitely going to have to seed the storm drainage ditch opposite ...

 

[platinumsage]

These seeds are blowing everywhere today, they're all in the house etc.

Any ideas? All I can tell is that they've evolved to be wind-born.

 

[gentlegreen]

silver birch ?

Though it seems a bit early

(I cheated - my first random thought was hydrangea)

winged seed - Google Search

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[BoatieBird]

Silver birch. We used to have one in the garden and our house would be littered with them.
There's one a few gardens away so we still get a fair few blowing through the house.

 

[wayward bob]

this is one of the large lumpy trees in the park - horse chestnut?

in the first branching there's a blossoming shrub growing - any guesses?

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this shrub now has yellow berries. any more guesses pls?

 

[Brainaddict]

this shrub now has yellow berries. any more guesses pls?

Huh, I would have guessed viburnum opulus, but that has red berries.

 

[wayward bob]

i wonder if they have more ripening to do still...

 

[Brainaddict]

Sorry, I wrote the wrong thing so just had to edit that post

 

[two sheds]

Now if they were white berries I'd suggest snowberries.

But since they're not, I won't

 

[gentlegreen]

Huh, I would have guessed viburnum opulus, but that has red berries.

Viburnum opulus 'Xanthocarpum' - Google Search

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[wayward bob]

Viburnum opulus 'Xanthocarpum' - Google Search

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i think the leaves are more simple/less lobed than that, and the berries look to be evenly distributed, rather than bunches (panicles?). if i ever remember to take a camera/phone with me i'll try to get a better pic