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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on October 18, 2010, 11:44:15 PM
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Help!
Jill Weatherhead is doing a talk at our group this Saturday and she sent me some pics to ID - but I'll need help!
She has put some suggestions for the genus but needs the specific name where possible.
I thought the geum was possibly a potentilla; any help would be appreciated!
cheers
fermi
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The one labelled as Hedysarum looks a lot like Onobrychis.
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The one labelled as Hedysarum looks a lot like Onobrychis.
Thanks, Lori, it looks like it's Onobrychis viciifolia!
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fermi
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Fermi - some ideas, will do better with my Flora Helvetica when at home.
Prunella = Thymus ?serphyllum
7803 = Scabiosa ?
7983 & pink pulsatilla = Pulsatilla vernalis - often very pink on petal reverse
Geum = likely potentilla but tricky without leaves
Helianthemum = probably nummularium from what we can see of leaves but difficult to tell size.
Geranium .... pratense or sylvaticum but maybe you'd got that far already!
Good luck - I'll check back later and refine these if someone else has not already done so.
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Thanks, Lori, it looks like it's Onobrychis viciifolia!
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fermi
Great! Thought that was very likely (O. vicifolia is a common escape from forage crops in the foothills here) but hesitated to say, not being overly familiar with other Onobrychis species.
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Thanks for your help as well, Tony.
I'll send Jill the names so she can update her list.
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fermi
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Tony is correct. The Geranium is G. sylvaticum
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Tony is correct. The Geranium is G. sylvaticum
Thanks, Mark. That's both pictures?
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fermi
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A veronica which is still in need of a name:
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fermi
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Yes to Geranium sylvaticum for both ... I looked in my F H last night. Will try and find the veronica tonight.
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It is Veronica urticifolia.
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Yes to Geranium sylvaticum for both ... I looked in my F H last night. Will try and find the veronica tonight.
FH to the rescue - no need for my Flora Helvetica as Franz Hadacek has the answer :)
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Thank you, Franz and Tony.
Jill just sent me another one which is a good shot of the mountains but not so good of the plant in the foreground! Is it a prunella?
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fermi
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Thank you, Franz and Tony.
Jill just sent me another one which is a good shot of the mountains but not so good of the plant in the foreground! Is it a prunella? cheers fermi
Looks more like Pedicularis. Not sure the picture is good enough to tell the species, although Franz probably can ;D
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fermi,
Diana is right, I think it is Pedicularis recutita.
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Thank you, Franz and Tony.
Jill just sent me another one which is a good shot of the mountains but not so good of the plant in the foreground! Is it a prunella?
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fermi
Yes, Pedicularis it is. I hesitate to differ with Franz but I don't think it is P. recutita which is taller and much darker in flower. I would suggest P verticillata.
I have seen both in Switzerland, they are quite different. On the Mannlichen (where your photo was taken) Pedicularis verticillata grows in great abundance.
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Tony,
You are right.
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Thank you to everyone who helped out with the identifying of these plants.
Jill gave a marvelous talk last night despite difficult circumstances with equipment failure!
The pictures of the mountain flowers were just wonderful especially the anemones, ranunculi and pulsatillas! Cliff would've loved it! ;D
cheers
fermi