I thought ground elder too but don't the leaf lobes look too small and far apart, or is that because it's on a wooded site?
You can tell ground elder from the smell of a crushed leaf, how would you describe it Cab?
judyofthewoods
Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 804 Location: Pembrokeshire
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 05 5:01 pm Post subject:
without seing the stem I can't be absolutly sure, but first one looks like an elder seedling. The spiky one probably Lords and Ladies. No idea about other one.
judith
Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 22789 Location: Montgomeryshire
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 05 5:09 pm Post subject:
The middle one looks like Lady's Mantle to me. Agree with everyone else on the other two.
You see, it does look like ground elder, but that means that a little seedling like that looks like elder, at least the leaves do. The leaves are actually more reminiscent of alexanders, but that's clearly not likely in a woodland in Hampshire (unless it's right near the sea) and it's also a bit small for an Alexander at this time of year.
wellington womble
Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 15051 Location: East Midlands
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 05 9:22 am Post subject:
Damn - there's lots of exhibit A on our walks, and I've been wondering if it was edible! I'll stick to nettles!
plant c looks like an elderberry seedling - the leaves look very sharply toothed too much for ground elder. if it stinks it probably is elderberry! plant b looks like it's going to grow alot, some kind of scrambler/ climber thingy? that notch at the edge of the leaf where it joins the stem looks familiar, possibly a hop or bryony? plant a: lords and ladies
jacky
plant c looks like an elderberry seedling - the leaves look very sharply toothed too much for ground elder.
I thought that... But then it also looks like Alexanders, and it also looks a bit like Angelica, and just once in a while a ground elder gets a bit beaten looking like that... Hard to say, isn't it?
plant b looks like it's going to grow alot, some kind of scrambler/ climber thingy?
Not a mallow or something? I just thought from the shape of the leaves and the way the stems splay out; but I think it's a bit early and I don't think they attach to the stem like that. I always think of pea family, with the leaves wrapped around the stem like that.
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