? less than 2mm in diameter we are talking small
By Pimpernel
- 23 May, 2012
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The smallest unknown flower..... it looks more pink to my naked eye.
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Can't imagine what it is. I'll try a look in my books in a minuit.
23 May, 2012
Definately not a Veronica. It's not a veronica-shaped flower.
I wonder if it's Field Madder - Sherardia arvensis
A prostrate hairy annual. Square stems. Whorls of 4 - 6 stiff leaves. Flowers in small heads, surrounded by leaf-like bracts ... tiny, pale purple, with a slender corolla tube.
23 May, 2012
Oh..I thought you had it Hywel.. but the leaves are wrong and it does not grow upright.. I will try another pic with something for scale..the flower does look right though :/
23 May, 2012
It's gorgeous by any name, sorry can't help...
24 May, 2012
Where did you find it, P? Such a delicate colour. Lovely.
24 May, 2012
It is on a rather neglected verge by the entrance to the infant school...I will wait till it is closed before taking another photo or I will be arrested..
having had a good look again at Hywel's ID of
"Field Madder - Sherardia arvensis" I think he has got it again...
24 May, 2012
I thought that was it. It likes sprawling on waste ground.
:o)
24 May, 2012
:)
24 May, 2012
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Bet it's a veronica again..lol.
23 May, 2012