Wildflower ID help please

[British Red]

I saw this pretty fellow today - about 4" high with 1/4" flowers and 2" leaves. I've checked my books but can't get a positive ID - can anyone help?

Red

 

[Goose]

If it has spotty leaves it could be common lungwort, just a guess though!

 

[fred gordon]

If it has spotty leaves it could be common lungwort, just a guess though!

I agree. It's common Lungwort. The flowers can be very variable. All the way from pinky red to blue.

 

[British Red]

No, fairly plain green leaves - slightly hairy as you can see but no lobes or serrations

Red

 

[Goose]

My book has a similar species down as "P.angustifolia" which has narrower, unspotted leaves, but when I google all I get is lavender and some type of plum?

 

[chas brookes]

Hi Red
I will go along with the majority
Lungwort Pulmonaria
Chas

 

[Toddy]

Pulmonaria; it's very pretty isn't it? Comes up from nothing every year. One of my favourites. It's edible, if a bit peculiar textured, and it's one of those gently useful herbal plants.....coughs, eyes and diarrhoea.

http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Pulmonaria+officinalis

cheers,
Toddy

 

[JonnyP]

Probably hounds tounge Red, certainly borage family....

 

[bushtank]

looks like lungwort to me Red

 

[Fenlander]

There's a leaf in the background of the picture that appears to be spotted

 

[British Red]

Checked it out - you are (of course) spot on - common lungwort it is!

I was thinking dark spots as per lords and ladies. I should learn to think!

Thanks you all!

Red

 

[Goose]

By the way I should mention it was SWMBO that IDed it, while I was sent to make the coffee!

 

[fred gordon]

By the way I should mention it was SWMBO that IDed it, while I was sent to make the coffee!

Always the same isn't it? At least we know our place, and our uses!!

 

[British Red]

Either way I got to learn so please thank Mrs Goose (does that make you a Gander? )

And of course Fred, Chas, Mary, Thomas, Jon, Kevin, the bloke down the road, two chavs stopped in the street and a baby in a pram whose knowledge of wild flowers is better than mine

I know my place

Red

 

[Toddy]

Well, y'know, you'll remember this one

atb,
Toddy

 

[JonnyP]

Well, y'know, you'll remember this one

atb,
Toddy

Yeah, me to......Doh...

 

[Toddy]

I didn't know what Hound's tongue looked like so I've learned something too. The flowers do look similar in the photos.

http://www.ukwildflowers.com/Web_pages/cynoglossum_officinale_hounds_tongue.htm

http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Cynoglossum+officinale

http://www.igimages.co.uk/_wildflowers/purple-blue/hounds-tongue.html

Seems it's not really found in my bit of the world, ah well

cheers,
Toddy

 

[JonnyP]

I didn't know what Hound's tongue looked like so I've learned something too. The flowers do look similar in the photos.

http://www.ukwildflowers.com/Web_pages/cynoglossum_officinale_hounds_tongue.htm

http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Cynoglossum+officinale

http://www.igimages.co.uk/_wildflowers/purple-blue/hounds-tongue.html

Seems it's not really found in my bit of the world, ah well

cheers,
Toddy

Because Red said there were no spots on the leaves, I was looking at others it could be, and hounds tounge likes chalky soil, as what Red is on, but its a taller plant....We get lots of green alkanet round here, but I could see it was not that...
Thats my excuse and I am sticking with it.....