Snippets of Wealth - Monday 19th August 2019 - Holme Stinted Pastures/Gentianella campestris

Gentianella campestris (Field Gentian)

Photo: Holme Stinted Pastures 19th August 2019

Not a lot! but a few lovely scattered small communities here and there but these have turned out to be the rarer campestris (Field Gentian).  

 Gentianella campestris

Photo: Holme Stinted Pastures 19th August 2019

 Gentianella campestris

Photo: Holme Stinted Pastures 19th August 2019

Gentianella campestris

Photo: Holme Stinted Pastures 19th August 2019..

Lots of beautiful Asperula cynanchica or SQUINANCY - WORT, some in white flowers although most having little pink flowers. You can tell by their profile and arrangement that they are from the Bedstraw family and have a similar general look to the Limestone Bedstraw, but squincys have a cleaner look and are white and not cream looking as the remnants of the Limestone Bedstraws are portraying at the moment....

A strange name! back in the medieval times it was used as a cure for QUINSY which was a nasty version of tonsillitis

A cracking year for Spring Sandwort and Eyebright, after leaving the Stints it could be seen throughout the first third of the track leading over the Holme Park Fell.

Field Mushroom 

Holme Park Fell - 19th August 2019 

Now thats what I call a Mushroom! and yes it really is a field mushroom (the edible kind).  Normally I manage to gather and fill a little bag of button sized to take home, but today instead of there being lots, I just found one and it was this giant.  Never seen a field mushroom so big (10 inch diameter), he would have filled a couple of pans! but lets leave him today for the local voles and wildlife......