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Title: ID for Orchid please
Post by: Seapy on July 27, 2018, 10:49:12

My son took this at Eskmeals on the sand dunes of the West Cumberland coast on 30 June this year.

Please can somebody ID it, I thought it might be some sort of Marsh Orchid but it doesn't match any photographs I have, nor the detail description.

Title: Re: ID for Orchid please
Post by: Birna Rørslett on November 07, 2018, 10:21:59

Quote from: Seapy on July 27, 2018, 10:49:12

My son took this at Eskmeals on the sand dunes of the West Cumberland coast on 30 June this year.

Please can somebody ID it, I thought it might be some sort of Marsh Orchid but it doesn't match any photographs I have, nor the detail description.

A member of the Pea Family. Hard to tell which one as the foliage isn't clearly shown. Could be an Ononis.

Title: Re: ID for Orchid please
Post by: Seapy on November 07, 2018, 20:07:33

Thank you Birna, much appreciated.  :D

Title: Re: ID for Orchid please
Post by: Birna Rørslett on November 07, 2018, 20:25:24

Might be Ononis repens Common Restharrow, or one of its close relatives. They all occur on sand along the coastline.

Title: Re: ID for Orchid please
Post by: Seapy on November 07, 2018, 20:31:32

I will get more images next year, it's a pretty flower, I thought it was an orchid from the flower, I am somewhat ashamed at my inability to recognise so few plants.  :(

Title: Re: ID for Orchid please
Post by: Birna Rørslett on November 07, 2018, 20:53:50

That's why it "pays" to have some botanists around :D