I don't think it tolerates acidic soils very well.
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A surprise find of Crimson Clover on the verge of the A38 near Notter Bridge today. No other alien plants there and the road has been here a long time, so it didn't come from amenity planting.
#wildflowerhour
Trifolium incarnatum subsp incarnatum
Bog Stitchwort flowering on a smelly damp path to a sewage works in Cornwall today ( I do like differing habitats).
#wildflowerhour
Stellaria alsine
Three-nerved Sandwort flowering along the verge of a rural lane in SE Cornwall today. #wildflowerhour
Moehringia trinervia
An uncommon plant in Cornwall is the (very common everywhere else) White Dead-Nettle. Growing here by the A38 for #wildflowerhour
Lamium album
Some Bluebells from Cornwall for #wildflowerhour and why not? Unlike further east, our plants will happily grow without woodland at all and carpet coastal cliffs with thousands of plants. Having said that, these are from a wooded area.
Hyacinthoides non-scripta
Little Robin has a stronghold around the Wadebridge area in Cornwall so it was a surprise to find some flowering on a rural lane near Notter Bridge today. However, I found the source soon after with around 50 or more plants growing as weeds in a garden.
#wildflowerhour
Geranium purpureum
Wild Strawberries are still flowering well, with the earlier flowers now turning into micro strawberry fruits. Notter Bridge, Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour
Fragaria vesca
Wood Spurge is quite a rare plant here in Cornwall, so it was nice to find a clump of around 20 plants flowering today. Rural lane near Notter Bridge.
Euphorbia amygdaloides subsp amygdaloides
Watercress growing in a "pond" of liquid cow pats and Garlic Mustard, seen this week in Cornwall for #CabbageFamily #wildflowerhour
Nasturtium officinale
Alliaria petiolata
American Wintercress flowering by the busy A38 near Notter Bridge Cornwall today for #CabbageFamily #wildflowerhour
Barbarea verna
Bugle flowering near Notter Bridge in Cornwall today, for #wildflowerhour
Ajuga reptans
The flower of Cuckoo Pint or Lord and Ladies with its insect trap hidden below. South east Cornwall today.
Arum maculatum
Lots of Common Valerian coming on along rural road verges in south east Cornwall today.
Valeriana officinalis
Garlic Mustard and Shining Cranebill from rural road verges in north Cornwall this afternoon.
Alliaria petiolata
Geranium lucidum
Little Robin growing along the rural lanes of north Cornwall this afternoon.
Geranium purpureum
Watercress flowering nicely in a wet area of a cattle pasture. The brown soil in the background is that colour from copious amounts of liquid cow pats, so this one's not for eating! North Cornwall today.
Nasturtium officinale
Greater Chickweed was quite abundant along rural lanes and Cornish hedges this evening in north Cornwall.
Stellaria neglecta var. neglecta
Bush Vetch flowering nicely along rural road verges in north Cornwall this evening.
Vicia sepium
My first flowering orchid of 2026 from a north Cornwall road verge. They're always a couple of weeks later flowering in Cornwall than the rest of southern England.
Orchis mascula - Early Purple Orchid
Some nice wildflowers from Rock Dunes today, Cornwall.
Geranium molle, Anthyllis vulneraria, Lobularia maritima (pink form) and Euphorbia portlandica
White Ramping Fumitory growing on the beach at Polzeath Cornwall today. With it was Tall and Common Ramping Fumitories too.
Fumaria capreolata subsp babingtonii
Hoary Stock naturalised on the beach at Polzeath Cornwall today.
Blackcurrant is the only #WoodlandPlants I photographed today, for #wildflowerhour
Near Perranwell Cornwall today.
Ribes nigrum
Lots of Greater Chickweed found flowering in Cornish hedges today near St. Kew Highway Cornwall.
North and East of Wadebridge is a hotspot for them.
Stellaria neglecta var neglecta
The white flowered form of Lesser Celandine, white from start to finish, not starting off yellow fading to white. Flowers upto 25mm, no bulbils forming in leaf axils, so Ficaria verna subsp fertilis.
Near St. Kew Highway Cornwall today.
About 50 Rue-leaved saxifrage growing on the edge of an industrial estate car park, Wadebridge this evening.
Saxifraga tridactylites
@brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social here's some from last year at Bude.
Also,saw Meadow Foxtail, Rosy Garlic and Cuckooflower flowering along the bank of the tidal Camel at Egloshayle today.