WILDFLOWERS YOU HAVE SEEN WHILE OUT WALKING

Last of the native orchids until next March, the tiny Autumn Ladies Tresses, just coming up but struggling on the baked cliff tops with no rain for nearly two months.

 

Marsh Gentian, just 10 plants seen, the boggy area where they grow is drying up so I wasn't sure if there would be any at all. There could still be more to come.

 

Common Centaury, found on an old pit top that Nottinghamshire wildlife trust are trying to restore. There were lots of small clumps along the footpath.

 

Red Bartsia, also found on the pit top.
Makes me wonder if these plants were here before the pit and now that the area has been left alone they have come back or if the WWT has scattered some seeds.

 

Field scabious
Common toadflax
Mossy rose gall wasp, I know it's not a wild flower but... I've seen about 6 of these this year, having never seen one before. The gall wasp must have liked the hot dry weather.

 

The phallic shaped ' Stinkhorn '

 

Porcelain fungi

 

Found on mossy banks in Cumbria

 

Some lovely Fly Agaric around at the moment

 

Magpie and Shaggy Inkcaps, Westonbirt Arboretum.

 

I don't know which they are, but they look good.

 

It could be sulphur tuft .

 

I think they are a form of honey fungus CarolineL. I had similar in my previous garden growing around a dead stump and its roots.

 

Oh dear. Good job it's up in the woods well away from the garden!

 

Hares ear and devils fingers