still finding new species

Coming back from the shops on Thursday morning I noticed a specimen of caper-spurge (Euphorbia lathyrus) growing next to a path.

In the afternoon I walked over to a nearby garden. On the way there I encountered white-flowered nightshades in fruit, allowing me to identify them as black nightshade (Solanum nigrum).

I came back by the canals, and found jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) and trifid bur-marigold (Bidens tripartita) growing there.

Goldenrod (Solidago) species is growing in a number of localities in the area.

field woundwort

One of the nearby allotments has a single plant of field woundwort (Stachys arvensis).

white-flowered nightshade

I have recently encountered a couple of specimens of 1 (or possibly) 2 of the white-flowered nightshades. They could be Solanum nigrum, S. physalifolium, S. sarachoides or S. villosum, but I don't expect to be able to identify them to species before fruit is present.

mignonette

Earlier in the year I identified a clump of plants as being wild mignonette (Reseda lutea). That clump is no longer visible, due to mowing, but two other clumps, one just across the road from the first appear to be white mignonette (Reseda alba), so I am changing the list to include the latter.

Arum

Recently I have noticed a clump of fruiting spikes of an Arum alongside the road running east out of town. From the size of the fruiting spikes it would appear to be Arum italicum, rather than Arum maculatum.