wild flowers

Spring in Galicia and lots of wild flowers to be seen, I don't think I have ever seen so many. There are many I know well and would see regularly on country walks in England but some are totally unknown to me and difficult to find names for. I'm no botanist so even my attempts to name the familiar ones may be wrong, but I reckon the primrose is fairly easy!











Primula vulgaris






The violet is pretty easy too. I think this one is the Dog Violet or Viola Riviniana

Red Dead-nettle or Lamium purpuram

Then there's the Buttercup, no idea what kind.

This one is Green Alkanet or Pentaglottis Sempervivens, I can't imagine why it is called green when the flowers are a very pretty shade of blue!

Wood Spurge or Euphorbia amygdaloides

Broom - Cytisus scoparius

This one I believe is the Greater Celandine or Chelidonium majus.

I think this is the Meadow Saxifrage - Saxifraga granulata

and now I reckon the Greater Stitchwort or Stellaria holostea

Which leaves me with those that I really can't attempt to put a name to. I believe this first one may be an orchid of some kind.

It's not helped by the fact that the photo is slightly out of focus. I'll have to try again.

No idea about this at all! The big leaves here don't belong to this flower but to the Green Alkanet, I suspect it's another form of nettle!

These three photos are of the same plant. The flower at the moment is totally nondescript but I'll keep an eye on it. I'm told that in Gallego it is called 'gamon' or something similar, in the autumn the flower dries to a stick and it was used 'in olden times' as a sort of taper.


This seems to be as good as the flower gets!