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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 21h

A clump of Sulphur Tufts by the River Fowey at Trago Mills today in Cornwall.

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 21h

Water Mint by the River Fowey at Trago Mills, Cornwall today. Mentha aquatica

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 22h

Cornwall Botany for September at sylvatica2022.blogspot.com hope you like the selection of plants this month.

Sonchus arvensis subsp. arvensis (left) and subsp. uliginosus (right)

Hybrid between American x Short-fruited Willowherbs

Hybrid between Long stalked and Spear-leaved Oraches

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It was a good flowering year for intermedia and rotundifolia in Cornwall too

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A Square spot Rustic in my house last night. Cornwall.

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thank you, some of the Evening Primroses were only a few inches tall (due to drought) but had the usual sized flowers making them look rather odd.

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I stayed at Corfe Castle village this year, wish I'd known about these! Now I'll have to go back next year.

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thrift is flowering again here in Cornwall too.

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A nice find today of a young Marsh Yellow-cress from Tamar Lakes in Cornwall. Not recorded here since 1984. Not flowering , probably won't until spring next year. Rorippa palustris

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wild Carrot, Musk Storksbill, Russian Vine and Vervain Cornwall this week for #wildflowerhour

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Goldenrod, Tall Rocket and Common Chickweed from Par Sands this week in Cornwall for #wildflowerhour

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Common Evening Primrose, Wild Fennel, Sea Knotgrass and a white Japanese Rose from Par Sands this week in Cornwall for #wildflowerhour

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lots of wind blown sand from a nearby beach, so I guess it likes it free draining. I usually see a few at a time, often in pavement cracks.

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Constantine dunes, a nice place to look for plants given the views, but the dunes are rather overrun with garden escapes

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Vervain on a sandy road verge in Constantine, Cornwall today. Given that there's easily over 100 plants it's surprising this is a first monad record for them here. Verbena officinalis

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A Russian Vine run amok (as usual) all along a sandy road verge in Constantine, Cornwall today. Fallopia baldschuanica

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sea Holly looking very autumnal in seed in Constantine dunes, Cornwall today. Eryngium maritimum

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Musk Storksbill on the edge of a sandy pavement in Constantine, Cornwall today. Erodium moschatum

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sea Storksbill rosette on a sandy path in Constantine, Cornwall today. No flowers, although if there were, they have no petals. Erodium maritima

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An unusually pink Wild Carrot in Constantine Dunes, Cornwall today. Daucus carota subsp. carota

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some were not much much more than an inch tall with a normal size flower on top.

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Common Chickweed now flowering; they will continue to flower all through the winter months too. Par Sands, Cornwall. Stellaria media

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not very common on the dunes, some Goldenrod flowering in a scrubbed over part of Par Sands, Cornwall today. Solidago virgaurea

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tall Rocket on recently cleared sand dune at Par Sands, Cornwall today. See ALT for evidence of its long-lived seed. Sisymbrium altissimum

Recorded here in 1901, 1910, then 1929 and nothing until 2025 when the dunes were cleared of scrub back to bare sand. Hundreds of S. altissimum then appeared evidencing a long-lived seed bank. They'll probably disappear again as the dunes vegetate over.

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Large, mature bushes of Prickly Saltwort on the beach at Par Sands, Cornwall today. Not something you should sit on or even near as the thorns are very sharp. Here, shown in fruit, however, the flowers lack petals entirely. Rare in the SE of England. Salsola kali

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A white form of Japanese Rose, invasive in the dunes at Par Sands, Cornwall, but it has pretty flowers, so that's OK. 😉 Last photo shows one in fruit. Lots of it has been ripped out of the dunes but it keeps coming back all the more. Rosa rugosa

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sea Knotgrass was at its best with some plants around 1m in diameter, all bursting with flowers. Par Sands, Cornwall today. Polygonum maritimum

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The known site for Sea Daffodils found a few that had set seed. The seeds are buoyant and can float to new beaches to colonise.Native to France, and now found in a few places in Devon and Cornwall. Par Sands. Pancratium maritimum

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Common Evening Primrose, usually around 3 feet tall, but due to the summer drought, they were all around 1 foot or less, an incredible adaption to ensure future seed set. Oenothera biennis

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Survivors of summer trampling from tourists on the beaches, this Sea Sandwort looked amazing with its leaf symmetry on Par Sands, Cornwall today. Honckenya peploides

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wild Fennel flowering on Par Sands beach Cornwall today. Note the finely divided leaves which easily separates it from Wild Parsnip which has very similar flowers (which also grows here). Foeniculum vulgare

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Frosted Orache growing on Par Sands beach today, looking suitably frosted in blazing sunshine, though it was drizzling just half an hour before. Atriplex laciniata

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Got the look of a hybrid too, though it's difficult to tell from a single photo. Is Meadow Thistle nearby? Might be C.x forsteri the hybrid with Marsh. If not, then it's just an odd looking Marsh Thistle as Moira says.

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Well worth a couple of trips at different times of the year. I went in late June.

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One of the few plants I went to see there and found easily, the rest involved much uphill walking in a torrential downpour and gale.

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I know of some right by a road on the SE of the Great Orme.

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm not happy with mine, invariably the flowers bleach out. I suppose I should shoot in RAW which would solve the issue, but I can't be bothered with all the editing.

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thanks, I don't trust AI, and I questioned it 3 times and it stuck to its guns. I even had it compare my photos to webidguides.com and it still wouldn't have it, so thought it best to check with you guys.

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've yet to find vigurs either. I did find some new E. tetraquetra at Samphire Hoe a couple of years or so back. Look along the railway line.

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thanks to you both. I thought so, but it's one I hadn't seen before. Rather surprised it hadn't been recorded here before either, given its size.

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You're too kind! After taking lots of rubbish photos I concluded "thin and weedy" was apt!

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As usual in the mild winter climate of Cornwall some weird alien plant has naturalised on a sea wall away from habitation. I believe this is New Zealand Flax. I’ve previously found baby plants in pavements too. Phormium tenax

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Two subspecies of Sea Aster from salt marsh on the River Tamar today near Torpoint. One never grows ray petals and the other does. Genetically different too apparently, though they can cross pollinate, so intermediate forms are also likely. #wildflowerhour Tripolium pannonicum

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Greater Sea-spurrey from a small bit of saltmarsh near Torpoint today. Note that there are 10 stamens and the petals equal or exceed the length of the sepals. #wildflowerhour Spergularia media

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Stone Parsley is a thin and weedy looking plant so it is hard to photograph. The easiest way to ID it, is to crunch it up and smell it. It has a strong odour of petrol/diesel/ antiseptic type smell. #wildflowerhour Sison amomum

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It isn't often that I see Holm (or Holly) Oaks with acorns, but clearly they're having a good year near Torpoint, with their roots in saltmarsh. Quercus ilex

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Tall Melilot with some ID tips on separating it from Ribbed Melilot and the plant height isn't one of them! Torpoint area today. #wildflowerhour Melilotus altissimus

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The dried up spikes of Sea Rush from the tidal Tamar near Torpoint today. Note the sharp bract poking up above the inflorescence. Juncus maritimus

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Round-leaved Cranesbill near Torpoint today. Note the tiny red glandular hairs on the stems (you need a hand lens to see these) and the dark dots in the sinus of the leaves. #wildflowerhour Geranium rotundifolium

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A weird plant called Redclaws, Escallonia rubra, lined a field edge neare Torpoint today, so clearly planted. However, it had started to sucker away from the main plants, so likely to spread in the future.

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