Lambs lettuce?

[littlebiglane]

Found on a wayside....it has the tinest light blue star shaped flowers...

Is it what I think it is?

 

[Iona]

yep, I reckon! check this: http://old-print.net/3661878/3661878171.jpg looks like it to me

 

[locum76]

I would say its forget me not/ borage.

its not edible.

 

[locum76]

Ah, yeah.

I just spotted the flower on the bottom photo.

Its definitely not forget me not.

 

[Iona]

I don't think so Locum, but I may be wrong. The leaves look like lambs lettuce to me and it does have small blue flowers... It doesn't look like either of those to me.

And you can eat borage, the flowers at least

 

[launditch1]

Cleavers.Or goose grass,sticky willie ect....

 

[Iona]

definitely not cleavers, the leaves are different and it has white flowers... and it'd be dead sticky! Assuming that would've put lambs lettuce out of the picture immediately?

 

[alpha_centaur]

Is goose grass and sticky willie not the same plant?

 

[launditch1]

Yeah,sticky willie is just another name for cleavers.

 

[launditch1]

Hard to tell if its sticky from a photo

 

[littlebiglane]

No...not sticky.....I don't think its cleavers.....I have a piccie of 'three sorts' of cleaver I picked yesterday which confuses me...I'll post those tonight......

Thanks for thoughts so far...

 

[Toadflax]

Lamb's Lettuce - we have plenty in our garden this time of the year, gets weeded out and the leaves nipped off and put into my sandwiches. The blue flowers are TINY, and the stem /leaf structure is very distinctive: two opposite leaves, from the middle of which branch out two stems. If you want to be nerdy, it seems like a fractal structure, as this continued division repeats all the way along the stem.


Geoff

 

[Toddy]

Cheers for that Geoff That little phrase is the sort of thing I'll remember...........fractal

atb,
M

 

[Jumbalaya]

That is lamb's lettuce in the picture. Clusters of tiny white-blue flowers when in bloom.

Best
M