A wild flower
pansyface
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During my walk today I saw this plant growing in abundance amongst new bracken stems. It is a legume with clinging tendrils. Very soft foliage. About knee high. Can anyone say what it is called?
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Not sure that's legume
It might be this http://www.seasonalwildflowers.com/climbing-corydalis.html
known as climbing corydalis.
A wonderful thing, the internet. I had something that looked like that years ago and never did find out what it was. Today I googled white climbing corydalis, and there it was, my plant, and maybe yours?
Ooooooh, thank you so much. I've never seen it before and it was absolutely everywhere today.
So it's a member of the poppy family. Who would have thought it?
It's preference for acid soil explains why it didn't last here.
It was still in a pot but being watered with local tap water
I read this last night and then today was weeding nettles out of my 'species rich' bank. By amazing coincidence found a tiny patch of this growing, though not yet flowering, and clinging on to rush stems. Would never have given it a second thought without this thread - another on to add to my list!
Love it when this just turn up Buttercup.
Just popped in for a cup of tea on this the first warm, sunny and gale-free day for what feels like months.
Glad to see that the little flower has some more admirers.
Yes, it is, but the link that Nut provided says Family: Papaveraceae, which surprised me as I thought that meant poppy.
I didn't read my link, just looked at the picture
I shall have to investigate. I wouldn't have put that in papaveraceae either.