if you enlarge and look at the stems you can see divisions and what looks like where leaves were. I don't think it's an allium. I think they're always single stemmed even if they have a cluster of flowers at the top.
It will be easy to tell if is Greater Burdock, , the seed heads are 'sticky', tiny little hooks on them stick to clothing even when dried out. The branching of the stems looks wrong too me to be burdock as the seed heads usually occur in clumps.
It might be burdock as looking at Google images no two are alike and apparently there are several types of burdock and it would fit in more with where it is growing.
Thanks for all your input folks. I will know what it is once this winter is over and summer arrives. I wanted to know what it was as someone I was walking with, where we spotted it, was inspired to do a painting of them with the frost effects.
I've used that site a lot over the years pansy. There's more info on the interweb generally now but in years gone by this was the only one I could find to help
...and I thought it was thrift - there are tall varieties and the grass like leaves form a clump around the base. By autumn the leaves have dried off and disappeared leaving just the dried flower stalks behind
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It might possibly be a member or the Allium family look similar once dried out,Alluim sphaerocephalon just a thought.
Alliums are not so dense and have bobbles on the end.
This is a burdock. But the photos may turn up in the wrong order, they often do when I post photos.
if you enlarge and look at the stems you can see divisions and what looks like where leaves were. I don't think it's an allium. I think they're always single stemmed even if they have a cluster of flowers at the top.
In the sticks near Peterborough
It will be easy to tell if is Greater Burdock, , the seed heads are 'sticky', tiny little hooks on them stick to clothing even when dried out. The branching of the stems looks wrong too me to be burdock as the seed heads usually occur in clumps.
It might be burdock as looking at Google images no two are alike and apparently there are several types of burdock and it would fit in more with where it is growing.
Thanks for all your input folks. I will know what it is once this winter is over and summer arrives. I wanted to know what it was as someone I was walking with, where we spotted it, was inspired to do a painting of them with the frost effects.
Has anyone got a few spare days to look through this lot
http://theseedsite.co.uk/seedpods.html
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've used that site a lot over the years pansy. There's more info on the interweb generally now but in years gone by this was the only one I could find to help
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks - isn't nature wonderful with all the diverse shapes and sizes - wonderful.
...and I thought it was thrift - there are tall varieties and the grass like leaves form a clump around the base. By autumn the leaves have dried off and disappeared leaving just the dried flower stalks behind
That's very unlikely to be found in woodland, though.