WILDFLOWERS YOU HAVE SEEN WHILE OUT WALKING

@Michael Hewett tried to take photo of the marigold but as the wind came ... so good to see yours.
Ladys smock....not seen last year and again not as yet.

 

Thank you @On the Levels
Shame you haven't seen the Lady's Smock for a while, it's such a delicate colour and very common around here.

 

Saw my first field pansy of the year this week. Lady's smock is appearing everywhere on the rewilded grass verges, also lots of shining cranesbill and greater stitchwort around.

 

Bogbean.

 

We have bog bean in our pond and we love to see it come back each year. Small plant but lovely flowers.

 

More Green Winged and Early Purple Orchids.
This one with a caterpillar.






Early Purple.

 

Some I saw yesterday ...

Cowslips / Primula veris (there are hundreds of them this year) :-





A type of Vetch but I haven't looked up the actual species yet :-



Bluebells / Hyacinthoides non-scripta :-
(not a very good photo)



Arum maculatum :-



Comfrey / Symphytum officinale :-



Marsh Marigold / Caltha palustris :-.





A small Saxifrage but the flowers have gone now. They are small and green and were there last week ... :-

 

That looks like the S. urbium @Michael Hewett - London Pride is the common name. I use it as ground cover everywhere in the garden as it's very adaptable. Very useful wee plant.
Mine is just about starting to flower - I think one plant has a couple of flowers on it.

That vetch is nice too

 

It isn't what I usually think of as London Pride @fairygirl, it is much smaller, quite tiny in fact, and the flowers are close to the leaves, not on a stem.

 

Ah - not sure what that is then @Michael Hewett . There are so many of these little plants, and very similar!

 

It's called Opposite Leaved Golden Saxifrage - Chrysosplenium oppositifolium. It flowers in that spot every year. I found its name a while ago but couldn't remember it until I looked it up in one of my books.

 

Gorgeous little thing. I can see now - the flowering parts are quite different, and looking at your pic again - I can see the habit is completely different. I hadn't quite twigged on the size/scale either.

I expect we have that round here. I must look out for it when I'm out and about.

 

My picture is a closeup, the plant is a tiny creeper and can easily be missed. I hope you find it

 

Yes- I hadn't quite realised the little spent flowers in your pic belonged to the 'rosettes'. I had a look at some of the other sites with photos - it almost looks like one of the small spurges too.

I'll certainly try and keep my eyes peeled - thanks

 

Birds Nest Orchid, rare in Dorset but at this site there were only 4 plants last year, today I found around 20 coming up with one big cluster. Pale as it is parasitic and has no chlorophyll.




Common Twayblade, often overlooked due to lack of Colour.


Greater Butterfly coming up and Common Spotted just getting started.