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Wildflower identification
mjd2000
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Can anyone identify this wildflower for me please, found on holiday in Germany. Thank you!
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looks like a type of ragwort? but I can't see any identifying leaves. might also be a type of st johns wort??
We really need to see leaves and how the flowers leaves and stems relate to each other - but going by what I can see in the photo I'm wondering about Solidago virgaurea.
http://butterfly-conservation.org/files/habitat-golden-rod.pdf
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Verbesina occidentalis?
Does it grow in the wild in Europe Bob? Can't find it in my Keble Martin ... I only know it as a northern American native - although of course that's not to say it's not been introduced elsewhere.
A close look at the stem would help with that one.
Last edited: 11 October 2016 12:38:17
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you - here's another photo which I hope shows the leaves more clearly. Does this help?
That still looks like the Solidago virgaurea to me.
I don't know the plant suggested by Bob (Verbesina occidentalis) but I believe it has stems with longitudinal growths on the stems rather like those on the Euonymous stems, and I can't see anything like that on your second photo.
Have a look at this picture of Solidago virgaurea var. leiocarpa and see what you think.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solidago_virgaurea_var._leiocarpa_07.jpg#/media/File:Solidago_virgaurea_var._leiocarpa_05.jpg
I'm hoping Nutcutlet will have a look at this one - she's really knowledgeable re native plants.
Last edited: 11 October 2016 18:02:56
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don't recognise that one Dove but can rule out any Hypericum.
I can only really ID plants I know, I'm no good at comparing two photos.
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Nut
I know I've seen it somewhere when I was with someone who said it was the native Solidago - which narrows it down to Minsmere or Dunwich Heath, Rye Marshes or Dartmoor ..........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you - and sorry, I didn't realise it would be such a tricky one! It was in a woodland in northern Germany - very pretty. Looking at the photo link I don't think it's the solidago virgaurea var. leiocarpa though.