Wildflowers of the week

Three common wild flowers that I snapped today. Anyone care to ID them? I'll give the answers in a day or so.

The first can be found in meadows or woodland edges:


The second is very similar and grows in damper woodland rides and paths


The third is a little beauty of open fields. This one is just opening

 

The first one looks like a Salvia, in fact so does the second, but I bet they are not :D Something is telling me orchid?

 

They do look exotic enough for orchids, but no - they are quite humble flowers. We never really look at them closely.

 

Marley Farley has them! The first is ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea) which is not an ivy at all. Very common, very pretty and very ignored.

The second is bugle (Ajuga repens) and as exotic as an orchid.

The third is the field pansy (Viola arvensis)a tiny annual of arable fields.
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Wildflowers of the Week this week are the buttercups. Here are a million or more in Hatfield Forest:


Care to ID these two? The first is common in marshes and often grown as a garden pond marginal


This is also grown in gardens, but here it is by the River Tees. In the wild, it lives in sub-alpine meadows.

 

HORNBEAM never fails to amaze i have some ground ivy and i swear it doesnt look as good as the photo on here..

 

Yep! Fields and fields full of them in Teesdale

 

1 = marsh marigold, saw a gorgeous one at the Broads.
2 - looks a little like winter aconite in flower, but the leaf looks like troillus,

 

Yep - you've got them. The second one is the Globe Flower (Trollius europaeus) Grows in moist places in N. England, Wales and Scotland. Sometimes seen by garden ponds, but it is very poisonous - like all Trolls .

 

I think the 1st plant looks like The Lesser Celandine, daughter has it growing as a thick carpet around her pond a relation of the Marsh Marigold I think but shorter

 

Some common wild flowers that you can see this week if you are out and about. Care to ID them?

The first is for town dwellers. You will find it in town on footpaths, waste ground, car parks etc. Also in suburban hedgerows. (It's not speedwell or borage)


This one grows everywhere and is a painless mimic (clue)


This is one for dog lovers (clue)


A wild flower of Wales, but a good garden plant.
Great for self seeding between paving slabs.

 

I think the fourth is a welsh poppy.