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Alien Species and Garden Escapes

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The following page contains alien (non-British) species found growing wild
in a variety of habitats, and plants considered garden escapes,
which occur in the wild by various means, including seed spread by birds,
other animals and the wind; to dumping by human beings.

Lactuca sativa - Garden Lettuce (Cultivated)     flower close-up     flower side-view
Blunts Lane Allotments, Estover, Plymouth, Devon. 29.08.06 (Private Location)

Lagarosiphon major - Curly Waterweed (Alien Weed)     flower
Johnson's Creek, Manor Park, Plymouth, Devon. 18.07.06 (Public Location)

Lamiastrum galeobdolon 'Luteum' - Yellow Archangel (Garden Escape)    fl. close-up    fl. spike
Hedgerow. Blunts Lane Allotments, Estover. 02.07.04 (Private Location) SX 50257 59321

Lamium maculatum - Spotted Dead-nettle     leaves
Cultivated. The Garden House, Buckland Monachorum, Devon. 24.08.04 (Public Location)

Lathraea clandestina - Purple Toothwort     flower close-up     buds     habitat
Parasitic on willow. E. bank Tamar, 300m north of Gunnislake Bridge, nr. Gunnislake, Devon. 18.03.07 (Public Location) SX434252380

Lathyrus latifolius - Everlasting Pea (Garden Escape / Naturalised)
Roadside. A38 Parkway, St. Budeaux Junction. 13.07.04
(Dangerous Public Location) SX455590

Lathyrus latifolius (pale pink) - Everlasting Pea (Garden Escape / Naturalised)     plant     leaf
Wasteland. Grassy slope west of Plymouth Ski Centre, Leigham, Plymouth. 12.08.04
(Public Location)

Lathyrus latifolius (white) - Everlasting Pea (Garden Escape / Naturalised)
Dune slack. Braunton Burrows Biosphere Reserve, Braunton, Devon. 08.07.05 (Public Location)

Lathyrus odoratus - Sweet Pea     bud     leaf
Wasteground. Embankment Rd, Plymouth, Devon. 26.05.05 (Public Location)

Lepidium sativum - Garden Cress (Alien Weed)     farinose stem close-up     capsule     seed
Wasteground. Boringdon Park, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon. 03.09.06 (Private Location)

Leucanthemum x superbum - Shasta Daisy (Garden Escape)     stem leaf     plant     group
Wasteland. North Road, Saltash, Cornwall. 03.07.04 (Private Location) SX 426 593

Leucojum aestivum ssp. pulchellum - Summer Snowflake (Garden Escape)     flower close-up
Wet wood-edge, near spring, Bickleigh Vale, Bickleigh, Plymouth, Devon.
27.02.05 (Public Location) SX 530 623

Lilium martagon - Martagon Lily     flower close-up     leaves
Relic of Cultivation. Estover, Plymouth, Devon. 17.07.07 (Private Location)     

Limnanthes douglasii - Poached-eggs / Meadow-foam (Garden Escape)     fl. close-up     leaf
Wasteland. Millbay, Plymouth, Devon. 14.05.06 (Public Location)

Limonium sinuatum - Statice     flowers side-view     stem     leaf     plant
Wasteground. Boringdon Park, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon. 03.09.06 (Private Location)

Linaria maroccana - Annual Toadflax (Garden Escape)
Cultivated. Lydford, Devon. 16.08.05 (Private Location)

Linaria nevadensis ? - Roadside Toadflax   
flower side-view     leaves     revolute leaf underside     glandular hairs     plant
Wasteland. Boringdon Park, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon. 08.10.06 (Private Location)

Linaria purpurea - Purple Toadflax (Garden Escape / Naturalised)
Foot of wall. South Devon Coast Path, Cattedown, Plymouth, Devon. 18.06.05 (Public Location)

Linaria purpurea (mauve form) - Purple Toadflax (Garden Escape / Naturalised)
Walls. Victoria Road, St. Budeaux, Plymouth. 01.07.04 (Public Location) SX 449 587

Linaria purpurea (pink form) - Purple Toadflax (Garden Escape / Naturalised)   
leaf upperside   leaf underside   capsules
Grass Moat. South Fort, Berry Head, nr. Brixham. 15.09.04 (Public Location)

Linum usitatissimum - Flax (Alien Weed)     flower close-up     capsule     leaf
Grassland. Blagdon's Meadow, Embankment Rd., Plymouth, Devon. 17.05.05 (Public Location)

Linum usitatissimum - Flax (Crop Plant)     fl. close-up     fl. side-view     capsule     crop
Under commercial cultivation. Wembury, nr. Plymouth, Devon. 08.08.05 (Public Location)

Lobelia erinus - Annual Lobelia (Garden Escape)     leaf
Disturbed soil. Footpath over old railway bridge, Chittleburn Hill, Brixton, Plymouth.
03.08.04 (Public Location)

Lobularia maritima - Sweet Alyssum (Garden Escape / Naturalised)     flowers     leaf
On cliff. Devil's Point, Plymouth. 29.08.04 (Public Location) SX 459 533

Lupinus angustifolius - Narrow-leaved / Blue Lupin     fl. close-up     pod     leaf     plant
Green Manure. Frogwell Road, Callington, Cornwall. 10.07.07 (Field seen from Public Location)

Lychnis coronaria - Rose Campion     leaves
Abandoned allotment. Ocean Street, Keyham, Plymouth, Devon. 25.06.06

Lycopersicon esculentum - Tomato     leaf     fruit     plant
Tide line. Blagdon's Meadow, Embankment Rd., Plymouth, Devon. 30.06.05 (Public Location)
Grown from seed washed up on foreshore.

Lysichiton americanus - American Skunk-cabbage     fl. close-up     young leaves     leaf     bulb
Wooded streamside. Lydford Gorge (NT), Lydford, Devon. 05.04.07 (Public Location)

Lysimachia punctata - Dotted Loosestrife (Garden Escape)     fls. close-up     fl. reverse     leaf
Verge. Car Park, Plym Bridge, Plymouth, Devon. 09.07.05 (Public Location)

Malcolmia maritima - Virginia Stock     flower close-up     flower side-view     leaf     plant
Boringdon Park, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon. 06.03.07 (Private Location)

Matthiola longipetala - Night-scented Stock     leaves     plant     lilac form (cultivated)
Garden Escape. Cliff between Seaton and Downderry, Cornwall. 09.04.07 (Public Location)

Medicago sativa ssp. sativa - Lucerne (Fodder Crop Alien)     flower close-up     leaf     plant
Hedgerow. Coleton Fishacre, nr. Kingswear, Devon. 13.07.06 (Public Location)

Melilotus indicus - Small Melilot     flower close-up     seed head     capsules     plant
Wasteground. Boringdon Park, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon. 21.05.07 (Private Location)

Mentha requienii - Corsican Mint     leaves close-up     plant
Trecanna Nursery, Latchley, nr. St. Anne's Chapel, Cornwall. 04.08.06 (Private Location)

Mentha x piperita var. citrata - Eau de Cologne Mint (G. Escape)    lf. above    lf. below    stem
Riverbank. Tory Brook, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon. 23.09.06 (Public Location)

Mercurialis annua (syn. M. ambigua) - Annual Mercury     fl. close-up    capsule    leaf    plant
This form is a non-native monoecious hexaploid form, flowers of both sexes on the same plant originating from Iberia and Morocco. This form also occurred at Boringdon Park, Plympton,
Plymouth and these records are the first records of this plant being found in the UK.
Verified by Darren Obbard and John Pannell of Edinburgh and Oxford Universities.
Stoke Village, Plymouth, Devon. 06.07.06 (Public Location)

Mimulus guttatus - Monkey-flower (Garden Escape)
Water Meadow. Blaxton Meadow, Saltram, Plymouth. 02.08.04 (Public Location)

Misopates calycinum - Pale Weasel's-snout     
fl. close-up    fl. side-view    fl. underside    lf. upperside    lf. underside    stem    capsule    plant
Wasteground. Boringdon Park, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon. 13.09.06 (Private Location)

Muscari armeniacum - Garden Grape Hyacinth (Garden Escape)     close-up
Old bus depot, Laira Bridge, Plymouth, Devon. 18.04.06 (Public Location)

Muscari azureum - Azure Grape Hyacinth     close-up     leaf
Relic of cultivation. Blunts Lane Allotments, Estover, Plymouth, Devon.
30.03.07 (Private Location)

Myriophyllum aquaticum - Parrot's-feather (Alien Weed)     flowers     leaf     colony
Pond. Forder Valley Nature Reserve, Leigham, Plymouth. 10.06.04
(Public Location) SX 507 578

Narcissus papyraceus 'Paperwhite' - Daffodil (Cultivated)
Coast Path, Roundham Point, Paignton, Devon. 16.01.05 (Public Location)

Narcissus poeticus - Pheasant's-eye Daffodil
Wixenford, nr. Plymouth, Devon. 17.04.06 (Public Location)

Narcissus tazetta - Bunch-flowered Daffodil (Naturalised)
Churchtown Farm Nature Reserve, Saltash, Cornwall. 08.02.05 (Public Location)

Narcissus hyb. (2) - Garden Daffodil - double form (Naturalised)
Hedgerow. Churchtown Farm Nature Reserve, Saltash, Cornwall. 06.03.05 (Public Location)

Narcissus hyb. (3) - Garden Daffodil (Naturalised)
Hardwick Wood, Cot Hill, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon. 20.03.06 (Public Location)

Nemesia fruticans - Mauve Nemesia     flower close-up     leaf     plant
Boringdon Park, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon. 27.08.06 (Private Location)

Nepeta x faassenii (N. nepetella x racemosa) - Garden Cat-mint (Garden Escape)
fl. close-up     fl. side-view     leaf above     leaf below
Wasteground. Boringdon Park, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon. 14.10.06 (Private Location)

Nicandra physaloides - Apple of Peru (Alien Weed) -1     leaf     capsule
Cultivated ground. Blunts Lane Allotments, Estover, Plymouth, Devon.
28.07.05 (Private Location)

Nicandra physaloides - Apple of Peru (Alien Weed) -2     fl. side-view     leaf     capsule     plant
Wasteground. Boringdon Park, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon. 03.09.06 (Private Location)

Nicotiana alata - Annual Tobacco (Garden Escape)     flower side-view     closed flower     leaf
Boringdon Park, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon. 10.09.06 (Private Location)

Nigella damascena - Love-in-a-mist (Garden Escape)     white flowered form     seed head
Cultivated ground. Blunts Lane Allotments, Estover, Plymouth, Devon.
29.07.05 (Private Location)

Nothoscordum borbonicum - Honeybells (of hort.)     fl. close-up     fl. side-view     flower head
Cultivated soil. Johnson's Creek, Manor Park, Plymouth, Devon. 22.05.07 (Private Location)

Oenothera biennis - Common Evening-primrose (Garden Escape)   
bud    leaf    seed head    spent seed capsule
Grassland. Manor Park, Leigham. 15.06.04 (Private Location) SX 516 584

Oenothera cambrica - Small-flowered Evening-primrose (Garden Escape)
flower close-up     flower side-view     glandular hairs     leaf
On dunes. Braunton Burrows Biosphere Reserve, Braunton, Devon. 30.06.06 (Public Location)

Oenothera glazioviana - Large-flowered Evening-primrose (Garden Escape)
flower buds     flower close-up     sepals     leaf     stem
Grassland / dunes. Dawlish Warren NNR, Dawlish Warren, Devon. 23.06.06 (Public Location)

Oenothera stricta - Fragrant Evening-primrose (Garden Escape)     
flower side-view     sepals     faded flower     capsule    leaves
Grassland / dunes. Dawlish Warren NNR, Dawlish Warren, Devon. 23.06.06 (Public Location)

Osteospermum jucundum - Star of the Veldt     plant
Hedgerow. Lighthouse Road, Lizard, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall. 10.06.06 (Public Location)

Oxalis articulata - Pink Sorrel (Garden Weed)     flower close-up     leaf
Disturbed soil. Blunts Lane Allotments, Estover, Plymouth. 30.08.04 (Public Location)

Oxalis corniculata - Yellow Sorrel (Garden Weed)     leaf
Disturbed soil. Wasdale Gardens, Estover, Plymouth, Devon. (Private Location)

Oxalis exilis - Least Yellow Sorrel (Garden Weed)
Disturbed soil. Rumley, nr. Bere Alston, Devon. (Private Location) SX 442 679

Oxalis incarnata - Pale Pink Sorrel (Garden Escape)     leaf     plant
Base of wall. Lane behind Mutley Plain (east), Plymouth. 21.06.05 (Public Location)

Oxalis stricta - Upright Yellow Sorrel (Alien Weed)     
flower close-up     flower side-view     leaf     capsule
Blunts Lane Allotments, Estover, Plymouth, Devon. 29.08.06 (Private Location)

Oxalis tetraphylla - Four-leaved Pink-sorrel     close-up     fl. side-view     leaf     lf. side-view
Wasteground. Boringdon Park, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon. 02.09.07 (Private Location)

Oxalis triangularis - Purple Shamrock     flower
Wasteground. Boringdon Park, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon. 08.07.07 (Private Location)


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