Wild Turnip

Brassica rapa ssp. oleifera
Rybs i december och i juni

Mistaking this for Wild Radish, I wrote:
No flowers quite yet on the wild radish
- just happy to see it again.

Now, identifying yellow crucifers
before the flowers appear
is evidently not recommendable
unless you know it as a form of gambling
thence, in another ten days: flowers
definitely more Mustard or Turnip in character
than the slender ones proper to the Radish
and, moreover, clasping upper leaves...

Birdseye Speedwell, Göteborg, May 30th, 2001


Veronica chamaedrys
Teveronika: augusti, november, mars




Tormentil

Potentilla erecta
Blodrot i september och i december

Turnip: at the foot of the next building
Speedwell: at the pedestrian bridge
Tormentil: by the bus traffic lights
Woodrush: by the Grimmered sign

are you grimmered?



Many-headed Woodrush

Luzula multiflora ssp. multiflora
Ängsfryle i april, i september och i mars

Eva Ekeblad, 2001

Erik Ljungstrand's advice was
not to be to sure of anything
- except that it was not
the Radish -
until there were seed pods

however,
the next day these identificatory precautions
were cut abruptly short by management
so I will stick with Wild Turnip
forever with a slight uncertainty