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tom.mac: Minuartia verna (Spring Sandwort)~still rather striking in its post flowering state.
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tom.mac: Veronica scutellata (Marsh Speedwell)~the white flower with reddish stem (there are a number of things featured !!).
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tom.mac: Flowers of Arabidopsis petrea (Northern Rockcress).
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tom.mac: Saussurea alpina (Alpine Saw-wort), near to The Sneck, Ben Avon.
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tom.mac: Saussurea alpina (Alpine Saw-wort), near to The Sneck, Ben Avon.
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tom.mac: Veronica alpina (Alpine Speedwell)~in fruiting state.
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tom.mac: Poa alpina (Alpine Meadow Grass)~viviperous panacle.
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tom.mac: Rhynchospora alba (White-beak Sedge).
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tom.mac: Carex lepidocarpa (Long-stalked Yellow Sedge). Pitarrig Meadows SSSI.
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tom.mac: Gymnadenia borealis (Heath Fragrant Orchid) at Pitarrig Meadows SSSI.
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tom.mac: Draba incana (Twisted Whitlow-grass).
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tom.mac: Melampyrum sylvatica (Small Cow-wheat)~at Keltneyburn (brings back memories of rediscovering this site away back in the early 1990's with my SWT Fife Survey Team), although a much reduced population from then.
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tom.mac: Pseudorchis albida (Small White Orchid).
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tom.mac: Polygonatum verticillatum (Whorled Solomon's Seal)~a colony on the steep slopes of Keltneyburn gorge (a newly discovered colony on this particular visit by myself which I was pleased about, given it's decline elswhere).
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tom.mac: Polygonatum verticillatum (Whorled Solomon's Seal)~flowering almost over.
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tom.mac: Polygonatum verticillatum (Whorled Solomon's Seal)~a closer look at the flower arrangement (almost past flowering).
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tom.mac: Cicerbita alpina (Alpine Sow-thistle)~juvenile plant (introduction site?); their development here will be interesting !!
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tom.mac: Homogyne alpina (Purple Coltsfoot) leaves~a rather special rare plant site here in Scotland. [I believe a single flowering shoot was evident here the previous week; but missed that] - a prime example of a site sadly disturbed & trampled by botanist groups
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tom.mac: Oxytropis campestris (Yellow Oxytropis)~a closer look at the flower, Creag an Loch, Perthshire.
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tom.mac: Oxytropis campestris (Yellow Oxytropis), Creag an Loch, Perthshire.
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tom.mac: Oxytropis campestris (Yellow Oxytropis), Creag an Loch, Perthshire.
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tom.mac: Oxytropis campestris (Yellow Oxytropis), Creag an Loch, Perthshire.
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tom.mac: Briza media (Quaking Grass) emerging panacle at Greag an Loch.
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tom.mac: Hieracium species (Sect. alpina)~possibly Hanbury's Hawkweed.
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tom.mac: Potentilla crantzii at Creag an Loch.
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tom.mac: Oxytropis campestris (Yellow Oxytropis), Creag an Loch, Perthshire.
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tom.mac: Salix herbacea (Dwarf Willow)~macro, Creag Leacagach,near to Loch Loch.
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tom.mac: Hierochloe odorata (Holy-grass), Loch Leven shores, Fife.
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tom.mac: Hierochloe odorata (Holy-grass), Loch Leven shores, Fife.
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tom.mac: Silene viscaria (Sticky Catchfly), Glen Farg.