14 January 2018
Red Deadnettle, Common
"The flower looks like Dog's Mercury, but the principal leaves are something else - probably a crucifer. There is also a Dock and a thistle leaf."
Comments by Peter on Flora of the British Isles: A Photographic Guide flickr
On a cool (air temp > 8.2 °C with wind chill) clear day there was very little wildlife of note. On land disturbed by the tidal works at the southern end of the new Ferry Bridge, a few common "weeds" of Dog's Mercury Mercurialis perennis, Common Mouse-ear, Red Deadnettle and Groundsel were noted in the beginnings of flower without looking for them.
Between the cyclepath and the River Adur at Old Shoreham, I noted Sow Thistle, Mayweed and Ox-eye Daisy in tattered flower as I was blown about by Gale Force 8 gusts of wind.
As a leftover from last year, a diminutive Oxford Ragwort was just about showing a flower by the railway station, Shoreham-by-Sea.
Adur Nature Reports 2017
Parts of a Flower
A Layman's Guide to British Wild Flowers
Wild Flower Society
List of the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland
Alphabetical LIst of British Wild Plants
Sussex Wild Flora
& Fauna on Chalk
Plant Ecology (book)
Interactive Flora of the British Isles: DVD ROM