Settle Wildflowers - Day 81 - White 17 - Large Bindweed, Lesser Stitchwort and Grass of Parnassus

The more perceptive off you may have noticed that I have "missed" a couple of days. These are for for more blue/violet flowers which I will fill in later - I have the pictures of the flowers ready - but not the time to add them.

So now on 20 Sept, two days before the autumn equinox, still in full bloom:

1. Large (Greater) Bindweed - Even car botanists should notice this from car windows!

2. Lesser Stitchwort - 

Seen on a walk with a friend in the Forest of Bowland side of Settle- I am still happy to go out on walks near where people live. (Last Thursday I also went out with People from Settle Community Munchers to their new allotment.. but that is for another post)

3. Grass of Parnassus -

On limestone grassland above Langcliffe and Stainforth - I made a special walk, party to find this.

1. Large Bindweed (aka Great Bindweed) Calystegia silvatica  scrambling over our hedgerows - e.g. at Langcliffe Hoffman Kiln, The bypass and waste sites.

Calystegia silvatica


The above flower is huge.

2. Lesser Stitchwort  Stellaria graminea

Search in the grass beside lanes running through the more acid grassland areas and you might find the tiny Lesser Stitchwort
This one was on a walk near Routser above Giggleswick Station.

2. Lesser Stitchwort  Stellaria graminea

3. Grass of Parnassus - Parnassia palustris

Finally this realtively rare gem of base rich flushes  - which waits for August and September to appear. This was on a grazed limestone grassland slope (above Langcliffe and Stainforth) .. it must somehow be a specially moist slope.








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