Common Stork's-bill, a slightly unsatisfactory looking geranium I think. The petals are often unequal, the leaves don't seem quite right for a geranium and the only the top two petals (sometimes!) have black spots. Weird.... It's actually mainly a coastal plant, and the only section of the Rainford bypass where I have seen it is alongside the new golf course, where the ground has recently been disturbed, and where competition from grasses etc. is still quite light.
A much more satisfactory flower, this is Germander Speedwell. The only odd thing about this beautiful flower is that it sounds like it belongs in a Beatrix Potter novel. Oh, and it has hairs up just two sides of the stem, the other two sides being completely bald.....
Thursday 24 May 2012
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