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Can anyone enlighten me to what plant this is:

http://www.pbase.com/chris_craggs/image/164708463

Initially I thought it was Old Man's Beard, but after a closer look I realised it wasn't.

I have Googled "plant with downy seeds" to no avail.

Cheers.


Chris

Probably best to ask in the pub

In reply to john arran:


Indeed - I intended to change that to 'house' but forget! Having said that, I'm sure botanist like a beer,


Chris

In reply to Chris Craggs:

Be a lot easier to identify without the artistic back-lighting, Chris!

In reply to Chris Craggs:

Hard to tell from the pic. Some form of ox-eye daisy

In reply to Chris Craggs:
looks like at least four different plants in that photo although I suspect you didn't mean the trees. Do you have a photo without the backlighting ? very difficult to see much other than the arty effect.

In reply to Chris Craggs:

As said, hard to say from the pic, but I'm sure it's a clematis of some sort.

In reply to several:
Sorry about the backlit shot.

Here's a closer version:

http://www.pbase.com/chris_craggs/image/164708461

It was growing in a hedge and the circular brown pods were bursting open to produce large volumes of cottony/downy material.

Chris

Better detail of the seeds pod destruction.

http://www.pbase.com/image/164709084/original

Edited to add another shot

In reply to Chris Craggs:

Japanese Anemone (Anemone hupehensis).

In reply to Chris Harris:

Good spot. A nice, generous flower. The standard pink plant var. Japonica grows pretty much wild here on the chalk in our front garden. I've just cut the dead leaves this morning, which are a corpselike grey, its worst feature. My dad grew the selection "Königin Charlotte", a much deeper pink, in the chalk in Cambridge. Sadly I never asked him for any.

In reply to Chris Harris:

What the man said

In reply to knowledgable types:

Cheers everyone - always nice to see something you don't recognise then get it ID-ed,


Chris