Lachlan Cranswick's Personal Homepage - Wild Flowers growing around Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, England during Mid Summer

Lachlan passed away in January 2010. As a memorial, this site remains as he left it.
Therefore the information on this site may not be current or accurate and should not be relied upon.
For more information follow this link

(This Webpage Page in No Frames Mode)

Welcome to Lachlan Cranswick's Personal Homepage in Melbourne, Australia

Wild Flowers growing around Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, England during Mid Summer

Lachlan's Homepage is at http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au

[Back to Lachlan's Homepage] | [What's New on Lachlan's Page]

[Spring Wild Flowers Page]

[Summer 2000 English Wild Flowers Page] | [Spring 2000 English Wild Flowers Page]
[Summer 1999 English Wild Flowers Page] | [Wildlife around Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, England]
[Main index to Local UK Nature pages, wild flowers, SkyCam, flame clouds, fellwalking, etc]

Thanks to Paul Stephenson for lending a copy of Observers Wild Flowers by Francis Rose. First published in 1937, third edition, completely revised and illustrated 1978, reprinted 1992, Bloomsbury Books. ISBN 1-8547-1083-4.
Also refer:

Summary of Observered Spring 2000 Wild Flowers growing around Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, England
Flora-for-Fauna: Finding Flowers: The UK Postcode Plants Database

At http://fff.nhm.ac.uk/fff/
At http://fff.nhm.ac.uk/search.htm
At http://fff.nhm.ac.uk/searchPC.htm

Image

Description

Thanks to Scott, Paul, Barbara, Mark and Hywel (Darebsury) and Nancy K. Fasoldt from Syracuse, New York State for help in identifying flowers. Also to Paul Stephenson for lending a copy of "Observers Wilde Flowers" (by Francis Rose)
Also special mention goes to Paul Schofield [Local Image] | [Paul Schofield's Sanitised Homepage] at the Natural History Museum, London for using this as an excuse to annoy his colleagues in the Botany department. (thanks go to Roy Vickery and Rosemarie)

0. Scentless Mayweed (Matricaria perforata)
Mayweed Chamomile or Corn Chamomile
(From Nancy K. Fasoldt, Syracuse, New York State (16th May 2000): "BTW, our garden columnist says the image you have is not Daisy - Bellis perennis. Rather, it is either mayweed chamomile or corn chamomile depending on whether the crushed foliage smells bad. Mayweed also known as "stinking daisy" and "fetid chamomile.")

1. Scentless Mayweed (Matricaria perforata) or Sea Aster (Aster tripolium) (was labled as a Daisy - Bellis perennis - (Compositae))

2. Buttercup - Ranunculus sp. (Ranunculaceae). Looks like "Ranunculus acris"

3. Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris)

5. Honeysuckle - Lonicera periclymenum - (Caprifoliaceae)

6. Common Bird's-foot-trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) or Meadow Vetchling (Lathyrus pratensis)

7a. Creeping Thistle (Cirsium arvense)
7b. Creeping Thistle (Cirsium palustre)
7c. Creeping Thistle (Cirsium palustre)

8. Blackberry/Bramble (Rubus fructicosus)

10. Rosebay willowherb (Epilobium angustifolium)

22. Meadas Cranesbill (?) or Wood Cranesbill (?)
Epilobium hirsutum - great hairy willowherb (Onagraceae) (www.nhm.ac.uk)

11. Common Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea)

15. Digitalis Purpurea (ordinary wild foxglove)
"Forgot to say too - 15 is more accurately Digitalis Purpurea, i.e. ordinary wild foxglove. You can tell it's wild because the flowers are only on one side of the stalk. Cultivated varieties come in yellow, white and pink (that I've seen).
From your friendly anorak...."

16. Red Clover (trefolium pratense)
"Try not to trample 16 (the red clover). We need this plant to stop bumble bees from becoming extinct in the UK - no, really, it's true!"

17. Red Campion (sileme dioica)

18. White Clover (trefolium repens)

19. Field Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)

20. Policeman's Helmet/Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens glandulifera)

21. Hogweed or Cow Parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium) - with Bee at Work

23. Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) or Cat's-Ear (Hypochoeris radicata)

24. Tufted Vetch (Vicia cracca) (Fabaceae)

25. Ribwort Plantain (Plantago laceolata)

26. Dandelion Seedhead

27. Blue and Yellow flower under one of the pines
Compositae - not a British native; flowers look to be artifically dyed. (www.nhm.ac.uk)
The implication from this assignment is that someone is going around the Daresbury Firs with a can of blue spray paint(?)

28. Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)

29. Possible Evening Primrose

30. White Mignonette (Reseda ?alba) (Resedaceae)

31. Honeysuckle

Back amongst the Daresbury Firs looking Towards the Daresbury Laboratory NSF Tower.

1915 (Robert Graves)

"I'VE watched the Seasons passing slow, so slow,
In the fields between La Bass�e and Bethune;
Primroses and the first warm day of Spring,
Red poppy floods of June,
August, and yellowing Autumn, so
To Winter nights knee-deep in mud or snow,
And you've been everything.

Dear, you've been everything that I most lack
In these soul-deadening trenches--pictures, books,
Music, the quiet of an English wood,
Beautiful comrade-looks,
The narrow, bouldered mountain-track,
The broad, full-bosomed ocean, green and black,
And Peace, and all that's good."

(Refer: ALCS -
The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society:
http://www.alcs.co.uk)

This England

"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
 This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
 This other Eden, demi-paradise,
 This fortress built by Nature for herself
 Against infection and the hand of war,
 This happy breed of men, this little world,
 This precious stone set in the silver sea...
 This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."


 William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, 
 Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1 
 (JOHN OF GAUNT (Duke of Lancaster) speaks)

[Spring Wild Flowers Page]

[ Back to Lachlan's Homepage]

(This Webpage Page in No Frames Mode)

If you are feeling sociable, my new E-mail address is [address now invalid] (replace the *at* with an @ ) . Old E-mail addresses might be giving forwarding or reliability problems. Please use clear titles in any Email - otherwise messages might accidentally get put in the SPAM list due to large amount of junk Email being received. So, if you don't get an expected reply to any messages, please try again.

Image	Description
Thanks to Scott, Paul, Barbara, Mark and Hywel (Darebsury) and Nancy K. Fasoldt from Syracuse, New York State for help in identifying flowers. Also to Paul Stephenson for lending a copy of "Observers Wilde Flowers" (by Francis Rose) Also special mention goes to Paul Schofield [Local Image] \| [Paul Schofield's Sanitised Homepage] at the Natural History Museum, London for using this as an excuse to annoy his colleagues in the Botany department. (thanks go to Roy Vickery and Rosemarie)
	0. Scentless Mayweed (Matricaria perforata) Mayweed Chamomile or Corn Chamomile (From Nancy K. Fasoldt, Syracuse, New York State (16th May 2000): "BTW, our garden columnist says the image you have is not Daisy - Bellis perennis. Rather, it is either mayweed chamomile or corn chamomile depending on whether the crushed foliage smells bad. Mayweed also known as "stinking daisy" and "fetid chamomile.")