Plant Id for my bimble today please (PIC Heavy)

[BILLy]

Any help or corrections for my plant id please
No1
First one I think its called Bugleweed

No2
Not sure yet what this one is

No3
Again dont know this one, or could it be Common Comfrey? only the colour doesnt seem deep enough purple, this one looks rather whiter but not sure if they darken.

No4
Think this one is wild Basil, not sure though

No5 not sure, could it be some kind of plantain

No6
could it be crosswort

No7 could these be wild strawberry leaves

No8 this didnt have any stork to it

Thank for any info all
Kind regards
Bill

 

[Toddy]

1.Bugle
2.Lady's Mantle
3.Comfrey, it can be any colour from purple to white or yellow.
4.Red Campion
5.Broad leaved plantain.
6.Crosswort, I think
7.Wild Strawberry
8.

 

[Mesquite]

5 is Plantago Major

 

[Macaroon]

3 looks very like comfrey to me - mine flowers exactly that colour.

 

[British Red]

1.Bugle
2.Lady's Mantle
3.Comfrey
4.Red Campion
5.Greater Plantain
6.Wild Strawberry
7. One of the Umbellifers - possibly cow parsley

 

[Jackdaw]

1.Bugle
2.Lady's Mantle
3.Comfrey
4.Red Campion
5.Greater Plantain
6.Wild Strawberry
7. One of the Umbellifers - possibly cow parsley

What he said

 

[cranmere]

Yup, what they said. I'm always very wary of trying to identify any of the umbellifiers without having a close look and smell at the plant, and ideally with a good look at the stem, general shape, and the flowers.

 

[Toddy]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who pulled up short and thought, hmmm, no, I'm not saying, at that one

We really should get to grips with the umbellifleurs though
How do the specialists do it ? Most of us do it by familiarity, and that's not ideal unless one is incredibly lucky and manages to get around all year long to see the entire range of them.

atb,
M

 

[cranmere]

My degree is in botany and I'm still wary of the umbellifers. They are superficially too similar and there are one or two which are seriously poisonous so I don't want to risk making mistakes. I can recognise some easily, Alexanders and fennel for example. Others I still get the book out.

 

[Toddy]

Mine's archaeology with a big chunk of geography and a lot of archaeobotany
The white flowers bother me I check the stems first. If they've got reddish splotches I keep well back !
I recognise the pignuts, the yarrows, sweet cicely, Alexanders and fennels, and a few like the galiums, but much of that's by scent, not recognising specific leaves.

atb,
M

 

[BILLy]

Really appreciate your replies girls and guys, I can see how mistakes can happen when identifying plants for eating just like mushrooms, there are many out there that can be mistaken for each other, I think I got three correct so far. I find it hard to remember the plants I’ve found names for, unless I’ve used it so to speak, I find when I am looking for an ID in mostly all my ref books they tend to show just the flowering part, and generally when its flowered and not the whole plant in all their forms/growth stages, what would be good is a ref book that shows different stages of a plant life, maybe theres one out there I don’t know about.
Thanks again
Bill

 

[Macaroon]

I too have the greatest difficulty recalling the names of plants and shrubs, but I take great comfort from the words of the great physics guru Richard Feynman; "it takes a lifetime to learn what something really is, it takes a few seconds to find out it's name"

Happy birthday, by the way

 

[ocean1975]

The last one could be sweet cicely at a guess but hard to tell from the picture

 

[BILLy]

I too have the greatest difficulty recalling the names of plants and shrubs, but I take great comfort from the words of the great physics guru Richard Feynman; "it takes a lifetime to learn what something really is, it takes a few seconds to find out it's name"

Happy birthday, by the way

Thank you Sir!!