These ID discussion guides are roughly in the order of flowering through the season. (Note the Cumbrian focus – for some articles, but not all, all the UK representatives in the group occur in the county, and are covered.)
[Note: photos are ‘clickable‘ (opening with better resolution in a new page; use your browser’s ‘return to previous page’ controls to return to the article).]
Go to ⇢ Cumbrian Snowdrops
Go to ⇢ Some Cumbrian Crocuses
Go to ⇢ Some Cumbrian Chionodoxa and Scilla
Go to ⇢ Cumbrian cherries/plums ~ genus Prunus
Go to ⇢ Bluebells in Cumbria ~ genus Hyacinthoides
Go to ⇢ Cumbrian Viola: violets & pansies
Go to ⇢ Cumbrian Ribes ~ currants
Go to ⇢ Lesser Celandine (Ficaria) subspecies
Go to ⇢ Northern Hawk’s-beard, Crepis mollis ~ ID
Go to ⇢ Enchanter’s-nightshades ~ genus Circaea
Excellent articles on bluebells and cherries, Jeremy.
Thanks, Stuart – am just updating the Prunus article now!
No mention of the fact that Ribes alpinum is dioecious I have a male and female plant in our wood at Larch Cottage and the flowers look quit different.
Geoff.
Yes – deliberate, Geoff! I have seen bushes in two places which appear to have both stigma and anthers developed, although whether functioning is a different matter. But I think that the ‘larger features’ are perfectly adequate to ID alpinum without having to look that closely.
What a fantastic set of pages.
Thanks, Simon!
The Cherries page seems not to work?
Cheers,
Simon