Flora (photo album 3)
 White Comfrey, Symphytum orientaleWhite Comfrey, Symphytum orientale (centre of photo) is a garden escapee that flowers about a month later and has whiter flowers than common comfrey. It likes riverbanks so is happy here at Stratford bridge, in bloom September 2020 Image: Kerry O'Connor |  Cyclamen (Sowbread)In dappled autumn sunlight in St Lawrence graveyard (both pink & white flowers). Image: Kerry O'Connor September 2020 |  Spindle (close up)Unspectacular tiny white flowers turn into attractive pink fruit capsules containing bright orange seeds. Image 3 of 3: Rosemary Winson 24 Aug 2020 |
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 Spindle tree (Euonymus europaea)In the past the spindle wood was used to make spindles for spinning and holding wool (hence its common name), also used for skewers, toothpicks, pegs, and knitting needles. Image 2 of 3: Rosemary Winson 24 Aug 2020 |  Gradidge Lane spindle treesSpindle (Euonymus europaea) is a native deciduous tree, often an indicator of Ancient Woodland but these specimens were planted fairly recently. Image 1 of 3: Rosemary Winson 24 Aug 2020 |  Chicken of the WoodsLaetiporis sulphureus - between river and track from Mill Bridge to Avon Farm June 2020 Kerry O'Connor |
 Robin's PincushionRobin's Pincushion is chemically induced on the dog rose, Rosa canina, and contains many larvae, each wintering in its own chamber, of the Bedeguar Gall Wasp, Diplolepis rosae. The adults, 99% females, emerge in the spring. Stratford Nature Reserve, Sept 2019. Image: Kerry O'Connor |  RedlegRedleg or Redshank, Persicaria maculosa, has red lower stems and dark chevrons on the leaves. By the footbridge over the Avon, Sept 2019 Image: Kerry O'Connor |  KnotgrassKnotgrass, Polygonum aviculare, is not grass. It is a weed but it is not knotweed. (Is that not clear?) Stratford Nature Reserve, Sept 2019 Image: Kerry O'Connor |
 White BryonyWhite Bryony, Bryonia dioica, though related to the cucumber, is poisonous. The southern slopes of Old Sarum, Sept 2019. Image: Kerry O'Connor |  London Plane (collage)The London plane, Platanus × acerifolia, is a non native hybrid and the commonest tree in London. Above ground it copes well with air pollution, below ground with root compaction and concreting over. The shade it offers and the beautifully patterned trunk left as older non-stretchy brown outer bark that scales off to reveal the greener stretchier inner bark, are bonuses. Verge by Avon Farm, Sept 2019 Image: Kerry O'Connor |  Ganoderma applanatumGanoderma applanatum, along the boardwalk in Avon Valley Nature reserve. This rots the heartwood of trees and is known as the artist’s bracket as sepia images can be drawn on the white underside, scratching revealing the brown beneath. August 2019 Image: Kerry O'Connor |
 Turnip, Brassica rapaTurnip, Brassica rapa, footpath to allotments, Aug 2019 . Turnips have been cultivated for 4000 years. Image: Kerry O'Connor |  Bitter Vetchling Lathyrus linifoliusBitter Vetchling, Lathyrus linifolius. Avon Valley Nature reserve Aug 2019. The tubers were eaten in Scotland before potatoes and are supposed to reduce hunger. It is related to the sweet pea. Image: Kerry O'Connor |  Horse Mint, Mentha longifloliaHorse mint, Mentha longifolia, road to Little Durnford Aug 2019 Image: Kerry O'Connor |
 Fat Hen, Chenopodium albumFat Hen, Chenopodium album, footpath up to Devizes Road, Cathedral on horizon, Aug 2019 Image: Kerry O'Connor |  FleabaneFleabane, Pulicaria dysenterica, Mill Lane, Aug 2019 Image: Kerry O'Connor |  Dryad's saddle fungusCommon Garden Snail (Cornu aspersum) inspecting a Dryad's saddle (Polyporus squamosus) fungus on western slopes of Old Sarum Aug 2019. Both are edible! Image: Kerry O'Connor |
 Shepherd's Purse and Pineapple weedShepherd's Purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris, with heart shaped seed pods and Pineapple weed, Matricaria discoidea, with yellow green flowers devoid of petals (crush and sniff to see why pineapple weed) near Avon Farm. Aug 2019 Image: Kerry O'Connor |  Wild parsnip, Pastinaca sativa,Wild parsnip, Pastinaca sativa, eastern approach to Old Sarum. Aug 2019. Image: Kerry O'Connor |  Vervain, Verbena officinalis,Vervain, Verbena officinalis, on Gradidge Lane Aug 2019 Image: Kerry O'Connor |
 Red BartsiaThe semi-parasitic Red Bartsia, Odontites vernus, near footbridge across the Avon Aug 2019 Image: Kerry O'Connor |  Mugwort, Artemisia vulgarisMugwort, Artemisia vulgaris, on eastern slopes of Old Sarum with cathedral spire on horizon, August 2019 Image: Kerry O'Connor |  Marsh Woundwort, Stachys palustrisMarsh Woundwort, Stachys palustris, on the village side of footbridge over Avon. Aug 2019 Image: Kerry O'Connor |
 Lesser Burdock, Arctium minus. (1)Lesser Burdock, Arctium minus. With leaves like velvet (VELour), seeds with hooks (CROchets) it inspired a Swiss engineer to invent and name Velcro. Near Avon Farm. Aug 2019 Image: Kerry O'Connor |  Coprinus cinereus, an ink capCoprinus cinereus, an ink cap that grows on dung. Pastures beneath Devizes Rd. Aug 2019. Inedible but even if it was edible, would you? Image: Kerry O'Connor |