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

Helminthotheca echioides 剛毛牛舌菊, 剛毛牛舌苣

Common name: Bristly Oxtongue
Scientific name: Helminthotheca echioides 剛毛牛舌菊, 剛毛牛舌苣
Genus: Helminthotheca 牛舌菊屬, 牛舌苣屬
Family: Asteraceae or Compositae 菊科, aster , daisy, composite or sunflower family

Origin: Archaeophyte (established before 1500 AD.) It has a European Southern-temperate distribution.

Date:  

a tall plant, can reach up to 90 cm

hairs with barbs on the stem

stem leaf sessile, more or less cordate and clasping; coarsely toothed

outer involucral bracts broad and leaf-like

forming fruits