Was showing a young lad around a woodland today, pointing out cramp balls, different tree types, ramsons and so forth, but me three plants that I couldn't identify. I wonder if anyone here can help. All three plants found in an ash-dominated wood with a ground flora of ramsons, bluebell, cuckoo pint, hartstongue fern and dog's mercury.
1. Definitely a garden escape and non-native species. But what is it?
2. I'm sure I've seen this before, but can't remember what it is. There was a good localised group of them.
3. The most confusing of all. Looks like cleavers, and stuck to skin and clothes in the same way too, but, too big, too coarse, too dark, too purple, and too early. One plant also had a single hard black berry, about the size of an elderberry. The actual cleavers are only and inch or two high at this point.
All help (and guesses) much appreciated.
1. Definitely a garden escape and non-native species. But what is it?
2. I'm sure I've seen this before, but can't remember what it is. There was a good localised group of them.
3. The most confusing of all. Looks like cleavers, and stuck to skin and clothes in the same way too, but, too big, too coarse, too dark, too purple, and too early. One plant also had a single hard black berry, about the size of an elderberry. The actual cleavers are only and inch or two high at this point.
All help (and guesses) much appreciated.
