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| Red Valerian |
Now don't get excited urban Pontypool is nothing like a species rich hay meadow in the spring but it does have a variable mix of wildflowers, or weeds as some wish to refer to them as. Despite humankinds best effort to spray them out, pavement plants survive and in some places are no doubt thriving. A mid evening walk around the centre of Pontypool produced nothing more than a got number of mainly annual plants, growing from walls, unmanaged planting beds and from the base of walls. The following images represent a selection.
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| Black Spleenwort |
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| Hedge Bedstraw |
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| Hedge Woundwort |
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| Hairy Tare |
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| Lesser swine cress |
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| Woody Nightshade |
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| Common Chickweed |
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| Red Campion |
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| Oxford Ragwort |
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| Unidentified grass spceies (non-native?) |
Interesting project. Three are mis-identified though: the Red Dead-nettle is Hedge woundwort, the Parsley-piert looks more like Lesser Swine-cress + the Meadow Barley shot isn't that clear but isn't this species-looks like one of the alien grasses.
ReplyDeletethanks - shows how muchi know about urban wildflowers.
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