Three plants with yellow flowers from totally different habitats
Yellow Corydalis - Pseudofumaria lutea
This was making a good show in Langcliffe by someone's house on VE Day.
It is also growing well at the north east corner of Giggleswick Church, and Doris Cairns has labelled that corner of the churchyard "Corydalis Corner" in the book of Wildlife of a Churchyard - Giggleswick, due to be published later this summer.
It is an introduced plant and comes from the southern Alps
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Climbing Corydalis - Ceratocapnos claviculata
This delicate native plant was in bud when I visited Cleatop Park Wood in May. And the bud was out of focus. But the leaves are good!!
It grows on acid sandy soil in millstone grit places.
In such places the flora is relatively restricted (because of the acid soil) - so it is a delight to find this delicate plant.
(There is some on the slopes below Simon's Seat.)
As I may not get back to Cleatop Park Wood for quite a while I display this picture from elsewhere (Actually in a wood /plantation in the Derwent Ings in August)
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Winter-cress Barbarea vulgaris
This was growing on the south side of the Ribble in the second field south of Station Road on 20 May. And in other places on the banks of the Ribble, where there are cobbles and the river causes erosion and deposition.
It has thick shiny leaves with a big terminal lobe. It has long narrow seed pods.
It
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