Ranunculus flammula 焰毛茛、火焰火茛、小矛草

Common name: Lesser Spearwort
Scientific name: Ranunculus flammula 焰毛茛、火焰毛茛、小矛草
Genus: Ranunculus 毛茛屬
Family: Family: Ranunculaceae 毛茛科, buttercup family

Remarks*: 

Origin: native

Date: 12th June

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278 A prostrate or erect perennial, can reach up to 50 cm. (vs reach to 120 cm in Ranunculus lingua 長葉毛茛, greater spearwort)

279 Leaves typically lanceolate to linear, tapering to base.

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294 Flower 8-20 mm diameter. (vs 2-5 cm diameter in Ranunculus lingua 長葉毛茛, greater spearwort)

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Ranunculus acris 草甸毛茛

Common name: Meadow Buttercup
Scientific name: Ranunculus acris 草甸毛茛
Genus: Ranunculus 毛茛屬
Family: Family: Ranunculaceae 毛茛科, buttercup family

Remarks*: 

Origin: native

Date: 26th April

109 A hairy perennial, can reach up to 100 cm.

115 Terminal lobe of leaf sessile. Leaves hairy.

111 Hairy stem.

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116 Flower stalk not furrowed. Sepals not reflexed, appressed to petals at flowering.

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Ranunculus bulbosus 球根毛茛

Common name: Bulbous Buttercup
Scientific name: Ranunculus bulbosus 球根毛茛
Genus: Ranunculus 毛茛屬
Family: Family: Ranunculaceae 毛茛科, buttercup family

Remarks*: 

Origin: native

Date: 21st May

32 A hairy perennial, can reach up to 40 cm.

40 Hairy stem.

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41 Basal leaves have three main leaflets, which are themselves lobed. The middle leaflet is long-stalked.

107 Stem base swollen to form rounded corm-like tuber. (could not be seen in the above photo)

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38 Flower buds

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39 Flower stalk furrowed, sepals strongly reflexed at flowering.

42 Flower 15-30 mm diameter.

34 Fruit.

Cruciata laevipes 平滑十字草

Common name: Crosswort
Scientific name: Cruciata laevipes 平滑十字草
Genus: Cruciata 十字草屬
Family: Rubiaceae 茜草科, coffee, madder or bedstraw family

Remarks*: 

Origin: Native in Britain. Neophyte (established after 1500 AD) in Ireland.

Date: 21st May

219 (24th May at another location) An erect, densely pubescent perennial, can reach up to 70 cm.

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288 Leaves pubescent, yellow-green, 10-20 mm, 4 per whorl, 3-veined.

20 Flowers in densely axillary clusters.

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29 Stem and margins of leaves with long spreading hairs.

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28 Flower corolla yellow, 4-lobed.

Saxifraga granulata 結節虎耳草、草甸虎耳草、串花虎耳草

Common name: Meadow Saxifrage
Scientific name: Saxifraga granulata 結節虎耳草、草甸虎耳草、串花虎耳草
Genus: Saxifraga 虎耳草屬
Family: Saxifragaceae 虎耳草科, saxifrage family

Remarks*: 

Origin: native 

Date: 21st May

291 An erect, pubescent, glandular perennial, can reach up to 50 cm.

294 Basal rosette leaves, blades 0.5-3 cm, with lobes long glandular and non-glandular hairs. Petiole much longer than blade.

49 Stem leaves.

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45 Flowering stem solitary, unbranched. Pedicels 5-20 mm.

55 Pedicel densely glandular.

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56 Glandular stem.

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53 Flowers white, petals 10-17 mm.

Arenaria serpyllifora 無心菜

Common name: Thyme-leaved Sandwort
Scientific name: Arenaria serpyllifora 無心菜
Genus: Arenaria 無心菜屬
Family: Family: Caryophyllaceae 石竹科, pink or carnation family

Remarks*: Arenaria serpyllifora 無心菜, thyme-leaved sandwort is similar to Arenaria leptoclados 細枝無心菜, slender sandwort. The identity of the photos below may need to be identified later. Their differences are as follows:
a/ sepals ovate-lanceolate, 3-4 mm; capsule flask-shaped, sides curved - Arenaria serpyllifora 無心菜
b/ sepals lanceolate, 2.5-3.1mm; capsule conical, more or less straight-sided - Arenaria leptoclados 細枝無心菜

Origin: native 

Date: 21st May

59 A slender, erect to ascending annual or biennial herb, can reach up to 25 cm.

60 Leaves hairy, to 6 mm.

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57 Flowers stamens 10, styles 3.