Anyone Know What This Is? (flower)

[Alex H]

I live in a new development on what was a sheep field. This appeared at the top of a retaining wall at the end of the garden. I don't think it's an orchid as there was no bulb when I pulled it up (wind broke the stalk the other day). Google images (picture comparison) is of no help.

I did have the idea that it may be seeded from our neighbour's bird table?

 

[mudsticks]

I live in a new development on what was a sheep field. This appeared at the top of a retaining wall at the end of the garden. I don't think it's an orchid as there was no bulb when I pulled it up (wind broke the stalk the other day). Google images (picture comparison) is of no help.

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I did have the idea that it may be seeded from our neighbour's bird table?

Fumitory. I think.

Its a native weed.
Pretty though isn't it??

 

[mudsticks]

Like this..

Its a fairly common wildplant, usually seen in arable crops, because it responds to soil disturbance.

It shouldn't become a nuisance, it only spreads via seed, and is easy to pull up once the flowers are done .

 

[Tail End Charlie]

It is indeed a fumitory (strange name isn't it). I am trying to encourage it and others into a wild part of my garden. I don't think it'll have come from your neighbour's bird table. It's in the poppy family so seed can be in the soil for years before germinating. (Interesting fact - a mammoth, something like 50000 years old, was once found frozen solid in ice and the contents of its stomach was analysed and found to contain seeds which were successfully germinated and were poppies!)

 

[mudsticks]

It is indeed a fumitory (strange name isn't it). I am trying to encourage it and others into a wild part of my garden. I don't think it'll have come from your neighbour's bird table. It's in the poppy family so seed can be in the soil for years before germinating. (Interesting fact - a mammoth, something like 50000 years old, was once found frozen solid in ice and the contents of its stomach was analysed and found to contain seeds which were successfully germinated and were poppies!)

I've heard that the name is due to the massed foliage looking like hazy smoke from a distance.

I'm always quite happy to see it as a weed on the farm..
Even if I in the process of taking it out.

 

[numbnuts]

Trifid

 

[Deleted member 1258]

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Like this..

Its a fairly common wildplant, usually seen in arable crops, because it responds to soil disturbance.

It shouldn't become a nuisance, it only spreads via seed, and is easy to pull up once the flowers are done .

The thing looks pretty, I'd be inclined to dead head it before it sets seed and apart from that I'd leave it alone.

 

[welsh dragon]

This is what it is.

 

[mudsticks]

Gadzooks WD ..
You may well have cracked it.

They do look very similar though..

 

[Poacher]

This is what it is.

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This is what it isn't, although that photo looks suspiciously like the OP's, even down to the fence!
Loose Flowered Orchid has thin strap-like leaves, not the finely dissected leaves shown by the OP,
and Alnwick is a long, long way from the Channel Islands.
Almost certainly a Fumitory, I reckon, but not sure which one of several very similar species.

Edit: tentatively identified as White Ramping Fumitory, Fumaria capreolata

 

[mudsticks]

There are some grass leaves in the original pic, which could mislead the unwary .

The other leaves do look like fumitory though..

Can we have more pics please OP ??

 

[Alex H]

This is what it isn't, although that photo looks suspiciously like the OP's, even down to the fence!

Errr............... a little time with a photo editing tool and

Welsh Dragon's

My original

OK - who stole it?

I did recover the corpse from the green bin and took another photo, so here it is

 

[welsh dragon]

It wasn't stolen . I used an ap that identifies plants. You take a photo of the plant and the ap identifies it. No photo editing done. Happy now?

 

[mudsticks]

Errr............... a little time with a photo editing tool and

Welsh Dragon's

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My original


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OK - who stole it?

I did recover the corpse from the green bin and took another photo, so here it is

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Any leaves??

Was it multi stemmed, or single stalked ??

 

[Alex H]

It wasn't stolen . I used an ap that identifies plants. You take a photo of the plant and the ap identifies it. No photo editing done. Happy now?

I tried that with Google images and it went just as well as your app