? 2mm in diameter
By Pimpernel
- 2 May, 2012
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Sweet!
2 May, 2012
very sweet Pims...
2 May, 2012
but what is it......lol
2 May, 2012
not speedwell, not birdseye??????
2 May, 2012
is this any help
http://www.birdmom.net/wildflowersblue.html
2 May, 2012
Leaves are wrong for Birdseye?
2 May, 2012
That is a good site though.
2 May, 2012
i quite liked it cos it had pictures!!!
2 May, 2012
has to be a speedwell .................don't you think?
2 May, 2012
I thought it was a Hepatica, but the leaves are all wrong. Doesn't speedwell have more petals?? I will look at mine closely tomorrow . . .
2 May, 2012
doesnt look like a speedwell leaf either to me
will have a look in my book???
2 May, 2012
It is miniscule..i tried to touch it and the flower fell off instantly.
2 May, 2012
is it Bugloss???
2 May, 2012
i would say it was speedwell Pims 'Veronica Montana' the leaves look a little different but that could be we're looking at the flowering spike leaves....
2 May, 2012
nope, found it
i think
green alkanet??
'roughly hairy biennial of hedgerows and roadside verges. widely naturalised as a garden escape and commonest in the SW. Leaves large, oval and pointed; basal ones stalked. Clusters of bright blue flowers, 2 -3 mm across; appear April - July' Collins Complete British Wildlife
2 May, 2012
although now i take another look at it i'm not as positive :-))
2 May, 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentaglottis_sempervirens
2 May, 2012
no..and no Sticki..Green Alkanet has to many petals..
2 May, 2012
http://michaelpeverett.blogspot.co.uk/2005/09/green-alkanet.html
2 May, 2012
ok back to the drawing board ~ well the book!!
2 May, 2012
It is close, very close to the ground ...I will see if I took another pic.
2 May, 2012
oh, short plant then??
2 May, 2012
I thought it was blue Pimpernel for a moment...but no.
2 May, 2012
you could have told us that and i would have believed you
one possibility is germander speedwell
or common field-speedwell
2 May, 2012
Very good. But see those stamen...not there on my pics??
2 May, 2012
they fell off when you dropped it??????????
2 May, 2012
this one?
http://www.naturalmedicinalherbs.net/herbs/v/veronica-arvensis=corn-speedwell.php
2 May, 2012
No..lol. The moment I touched them to get a better pic..not rough..the slightest touch..the flower dropped.
I will take more tomorrow.. Will use new camera as well.
2 May, 2012
more homework tomorrow??????????????
2 May, 2012
veronica-arvensis=corn-speedwell
very similar..but no...it grows like thyme..flat to the floor.
I would be getting cross with me now.
2 May, 2012
Nahh . . . just smiling at you Pimm's :)))
3 May, 2012
;) It only opens in full sun as well :/
3 May, 2012
we should be given a degree if we ever find the answer to this!!
3 May, 2012
you sure its not a sun flower turned blue with cold???
3 May, 2012
Pims How about Hedyotis crassifolia, maybe :-) this was driving me nuts last night, :-))
3 May, 2012
lol..sorry guys not that either..just found my wild plant book...Amy is quite good at wildflowers I may give her a nudge.
3 May, 2012
try this pimms, i dont have all the answers
http://www.realtimerendering.com/flowers/flowers.html
3 May, 2012
Think it has to be one of the speedwells..
3 May, 2012
I think it's Germander speedwell, growing through something else with a thick hairy leaf!!
3 May, 2012
No, the thick hairy leaf is the plant...have a new pic that gives you the scale better but is more baffling.
5 May, 2012
I've had such a giggle reading all the comments, now I can't remember what I wanted to say!!! I think that's know as a senior moment??lol
8 May, 2012
Welcome to our world Tracey. :)
8 May, 2012
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aw, bless!
2 May, 2012