June on the Southwell Trail - Part 2

I continued documenting aspects of the trail during June, often using a close up format. The subjects were primarily wildflowers but included anything that caught my eye or interested me whilst out walking.

There were plenty of dog rose flowers on display at the start of the month. Lovely flower - dreadful name!

Also part of the rose family is the bramble:

Many wildflowers look similar and each year it is test of memory to distinguish one from another. For example, oxeye daisies (first photograph below) and mayweed (second photograph below) look broadly the same but can be identified by the shape of their leaves - the oxeye daisy leaves being toothed or lobed whereas the mayweed have a dissected leaf shape.

One group of plants and flowers that I find hard to distinguish are the various apiaceae (umbellifers or carrot family). The most obvious though is the hogweed:

There wasn't too many poppies on show this year. I found this line growing next to a crop of broad beans:

In one of the other fields were rows of flowering potato plants:

Earlier in the year I identified hornbeam catkins on the trail. Now in June they had developed into papery winged fruits known as samaras:

The cherry tree fruits were also ripening:

Finally, I captured this knapweed flower which are very common on the trail but wonderful to look at and photograph: