Hi Jacqui,
Might be a long shot but I wondered if it looks like a Silene of some sort. The leaves look opposite, but I can't see if they narrow to the base to form a long petiole. The leaves look a bit narrow generally so I hesitate to suggest White Campion Silene latifolia? As a very long shot Silene nutans is supposed to have lanceolate to spoon-shaped basal leaves, and it's a pretty scarce plant of short chalk grassland. It's sort of in the right area but I'm not so sure it's a plant of semi-improved grassland. Chris -----Original Message----- From: adastra-request <[email protected]> To: adastra <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 12:00 Subject: Adastra Digest, Vol 111, Issue 5 Send Adastra mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.sxbrc.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/adastra_lists.sxbrc.org.uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Adastra digest..." Today's Topics: 1. mystery plant (Jacqueline Hutson) 2. Re: mystery plant (RALPH HOBBS) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:04:50 +0100 From: Jacqueline Hutson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [Adastra] mystery plant Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Thank you Vivien and Ralph for your suggestions. It doesn?t look like the devil?s-bit that I am familiar with but viper?s bugloss might be worth considering, although it was in an area of semi-improved chalk grassland (where I am conducting a NPMS survey) and there were no plants of viper's bugloss anywhere in the kilometre square that I could see. I will keep an eye on it Jacqui ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 12:38:24 +0000 (UTC) From: RALPH HOBBS <[email protected]> To: Adastra discussion group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Adastra] mystery plant Message-ID: <273962871.194023.1439469504459.javamail.r...@md05.topaz.synacor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Barry Yates for one will probably know young Vipers Bugloss plants well enough to say yay or nay to that! Ralph ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacqueline Hutson" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 13 August, 2015 1:04:50 PM Subject: [Adastra] mystery plant Thank you Vivien and Ralph for your suggestions. It doesn?t look like the devil?s-bit that I am familiar with but viper?s bugloss might be worth considering, although it was in an area of semi-improved chalk grassland (where I am conducting a NPMS survey) and there were no plants of viper's bugloss anywhere in the kilometre square that I could see. I will keep an eye on it Jacqui ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Adastra mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sxbrc.org.uk/adastra http://lists.sxbrc.org.uk/adastra-archives ------------------------------ End of Adastra Digest, Vol 111, Issue 5 ***************************************
