Thanks to Warren and Steve for keeping me right with my Burnets! This picture is of Great Burnet, taken same day as the plant below that I thought was Salad Burnet. The Greats are about half a metre tall or 2 ft in old money with the heads just still in bud. The other plant was about 8 inches tall and in flower. There were quite a few too. Now, looking at the picture with the field guide and Google at hand, the first plant looks unlike either Salad or Great Burnet! Do the little'uns shoot up to be big'uns? Help!
Is Great Burnet so variable? I have seen them several times in the past and they are always tall lanky things... Any botanists out there that can tell me more...
Above - Last years Great Burnet at Hauxley...
3 comments:
I'm not a serious botanist but there are quite a few of these growing in the ditches around Tranwell and Saltwick at the momeant but they look like the plants in the bottom picture. A good metre or so tall.
No good thanking me Stewart, I think you flatter me with someone elses skills. 0-:
Er different Warren, Warren :) see comments on last post....
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