Crocus nudiflorus 裸花番紅花, 走莖番紅花

Common name: Autumn Crocus
Scientific name: Crocus nudiflorus 裸花番紅花, 走莖番紅花
Genus: Crocus 番紅花屬
Family: Iridaceae 鳶尾科, iris family

Origin: Neophyte (established after 1500 AD). It is a native of S. W. France and N. Spain. It is introduced into cultivation before 1600 and was first recorded in the wild in 1738.

Date:  8th Oct

found beside metrolink

not yet flowering at 7:40 a.m.

flower bud

base at the flower stalk, no leaves at this stage (already withered when flowering)

side of the flower, perianth tube white

all opened already at 12:42 p.m. 

flowers with purple tepals; those flowers with white tepals are believed to be the older flowers, flowers open again on the second day

freshly opened flower, the white anthers are very fresh and the style is still very short (at another location, 10th Oct)

(at another location, 10th Oct)

later, the style becomes longer than the anther now (at another location, 10th Oct)

even later flower, the style is fully developed whereas the anthers now wither a little bit and become yellow in color 

white flower are believed the flower that open on the second day again

Myosotis arvenis 野勿忘草

Common name: Field Forget-me-not
Scientific name: Myosotis arvenis 野勿忘草
Genus: Myosotis 勿忘草屬
Family: Boraginaceae 紫草科, borage or forget-me-not family

Origin: Archaeophyte (established before 1500 AD.) It has an Eurosiberian Boreo-temperate distribution. 

Date:  21st Sept

flower buds

Note the hairs on calyx tube are stiff, spreading and hooked. Hairs on the calyx is more dense than in Myosotis sylvatica 森林勿忘草, 森林勿忘我, 林地勿忘我.

Flower stalk at fruiting is up to two times as long as calyx. (vs flower stalk at fruiting is shorter than or as long as calyx in Myosotis ramosissima)

Style is shorter than calyx tube. Corolla is equal to or less than 5 mm (vs 6-10 mm  in Myosotis sylvatica 森林勿忘草, 森林勿忘我, 林地勿忘我)

Aster x salignus

Common name: Common Michaelmas-daisy
Scientific name: Aster x salignus
Genus: Aster 紫菀屬

Family: Asteraceae or Compositae 菊科, aster , daisy, composite or sunflower family

Origin: Neophyte (established after 1500 AD.) It is a hybrid of garden origin. It is a hybrid between Aster lanceolatus 細葉紫菀, Narrow-leaved Michaelmas-daisy (neophyte), and Aster novi-belgii 荷蘭菊, 柳葉菊, 紐約紫菀, Confused Michaelmas-daisy (neophyte). This hybrid is thought to have been introduced into cultivation in 1815 and was first recorded in the wild in 1867.

Date:  4th Sept

stem slightly hairy; leaves margin entire or with a few small teeth

leaves base slightly auricled

phyllaries pale-edged, mostly compresse to the flowerhead with some of the basal ones curved outward a little

petals pale bluish-lilac

Pilosella aurantiaca 黃花鼠耳菊, 紅輪蒲公英

Common name: Fox-and-cubs
Scientific name: Pilosella aurantiaca 黃花鼠耳菊, 紅輪蒲公英
Genus: Pilosella 細毛菊屬
Family: Asteraceae or Compositae 菊科, aster , daisy, composite or sunflower family

Origin: Neophyte (established after 1500 AD.) It has an Europea Borean-montane distribution. It was grwon in gardens by 1629 and recorded from the wild by 1793.

Date: 4th Sept

Solidago virgaurea 毛果一枝黃花

Common name: Goldenrod
Scientific name: Solidago virgaurea 毛果一枝黃花
Genus: Solidago 一枝黃花屬
Family: Asteraceae or Compositae 菊科, aster , daisy, composite or sunflower family

Origin: native

Date:  12th Sept

Sonchus asper 花葉滇苦菜, 鬼苦苣菜, 斷續菊

Common name: Prickly Sow-thistle
Scientific name: Sonchus asper 花葉滇苦菜, 鬼苦苣菜, 斷續菊
Genus: Sonchus 苦苣菜屬
Family: Asteraceae or Compositae 菊科, aster , daisy, composite or sunflower family

Origin: native

Date: 21st Sept

Stem leaves with spiny rounded auricles.

Involucre glabrous.

Achenes smooth between ribs