If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Garden Wildflower ID required!

Feargal as Luimneach · 2010-08-15 20:23:18

Wildfowers growing in my garden. Not great with the wildflower identification. Thanks in advance First photo is a grass/flower growing in my bog.

Options

15-08-2010 9:23pm

#1

Feargal as Luimneach

Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭

Join Date: April 2010

Posts: 1107

Wildfowers growing in my garden. Not great with the wildflower identification.
Thanks in advance

First photo is a grass/flower growing in my bog.

0

Comments

Options
#2 15-08-2010 10:45pm
Velvet shank

Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭

Join Date: January 2010

Posts: 133

here's my tuppence worth....

1= Rhyncospora alba (white beak-sedge)
2= Daucus carota (Wild carrot)
3= Lotus corniculata (Bird's-foot trefoil)
4 = Epilobium sp. (willowherb)
5= Centaurea nigra (Knapweed)
6 = Some kind of Hemp nettle, possibly Galeopsis tetrahit

0
Options
#3 15-08-2010 11:34pm
Mothman

Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2004

Posts: 6061

Wildflowers of Ireland is a good site

There is another but I don't have link at hand

0
Options
#4 16-08-2010 11:20am
Connacht

Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭

Join Date: April 2008

Posts: 354

The other good site is
http://www.irishwildflowers.ie/index.html

0
Options
#5 16-08-2010 11:55am
Mothman

Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2004

Posts: 6061

Connacht wrote: »

The other good site is
http://www.irishwildflowers.ie/index.html

Thank You

0