Duxbury Ramblers: water plantain

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Friday, May 31, 2013

Friday 17 May

Damp Morning

We went out for dinner and called at the Cemetery on the way back to look how the ponds were doing, they were set up a few years ago and now look like they have been there forever.

Plenty of plants in and around -

Water Avens - Geum rivale, planted and a few in the area, not one that we find growing wild in this area, although not impossible.

Water Plantain - Alisma plantago-aquatica, we get this in our local ponds growing wild, the treat was the Water Horsetail - Equisetum fluviatile the two thin stalks in the middle of the plantain, not a rarity as we see it a lot on the canal

Take Care

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Sunday 22 August

Dry sunny morning - we went up on to the Lower Burgh Meadow after we had been to the big lodge.

Feeding time.

Young Swans are first to the trough.

Hazel Nut - Coryluss avellana

Hedge Bindweed - Calystegia sepium

Found in the hedgerow it must be from the nearby kennels there is plenty around there.

Montbretia - Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora

This is a little bit of a rarity these days, it seems to be losing the battle with the local fishermen - they clear patches of reeds to fish and this suffers.

Narrow Leaved Water Plantain - Alisma lanceolata