Corfu wildflowers to id. Help please?

I have just returned from Corfu and have been going through my photographs. There are just three plants left that I cannot identify:

The white climber, clambering all over the fence
The orange roadside flower (willowherb family?)
And the last two pics are of a very peculiar pea-like plant growing by the side of the road. It has multiple stems rising to about 2 metres, pairs of viscious spines (1cm in length) every 8 inches or so along the main stems, pods, soft 5mm opposite leaves, yellow flowers and the whole thing has a markedly zig-zag appearance.

Sorry if there's not enough detail but I can't go back and check now (more's the pity!)

Thanks

Martin

 

2. Looks like Asclepia sp. Possibly Asclepia tuberosa. Common name orange silkweed

http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&rls=p,com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-ContextMenu&rlz=1I7SUNA_en-GB&q=asclepia%20tuberosa&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1242&bih=529

 

Don't know the first, second does look like an Asclepias and the third and fourth are of Parkinsonia Aculeata, Jerusalem Thorn.

 

You beat me to it strongylodon!
I had just reached the same conclusion for 3 and 4. Parkinsonia. Probably Parkinsonia aculeata. Common name Jerusalem thorn.

http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=Parkinsonia%20aculeata&rls=p,com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-ContextMenu&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7SUNA_en-GB&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1242&bih=529

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsonia_aculeata

http://zookeepersjournal.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:Jerusalem_Thorn_Tree.jpg

 

Doesn't look at all right for Gaura parviflora.

http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=Gaura%20parviflora&rls=p,com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-ContextMenu&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7SUNA_en-GB&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1242&bih=529

However, butterfly weed is an Asclepia!

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Bu...NA_en-GB&redir_esc=&ei=GOeVTJ_uHcrd4Abfl5HkBA

Flower shape also looks very different for fragrant evening primrose.

http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=fr...&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1242&bih=529

 

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Marley Farley.
I think you have misunderstood my post.

I am agreeing with you!

2. Does look like Scarlet Butterfly weed.

http://www.fws.gov/rockymountainarsenal/habitat/native/wildflowers/scarbutter.htm

However, I assume Gardeners Corner wants to be botanically accurate where ever possible. I am not trying to be deliberately difficult.

I am saying the link posted above is inaccurate. The words are describing Gaura. However, words and pic do not match! The picture on this site is definitly not Gaura parviflora.

See my link below from Missouri Botanic Garden.

http://www.missouriplants.com/Pinkalt/Gaura_parviflora_page.html

Asclepia is in the Botanic family Apocyacaea.
Gaura is in the botanic family Onagraceae.

The whole structure of the flowers is very very different and they cannot cross pollinate each other.

This is the reason I try always to use the latin names. Common names often cause confusion, as several plants may carry the same common name

 

Thanks to all. I'm still scratching my head as to the first one. Ended up going through every illustration in the Blamey 'Wildflowers of the Mediterranean' book but no joy yet. Will carry on trying elsewhere though

 

I recognised the Parkinsonia straight away as I have grown it from seed to flowering size.

 

Ahh Corfu my first hol abroad many years ago.. also nice in the spring a mass of colour nice photos.

 

Number 1 could be Smilax aspera, it's a very common climber on the Greek islands.