A Botanical Journey mostly from Kent & SE England

This was a solo botanical recording trip to several under recorded 1km OS map grid squares (monads) in this area. I soon found out why it was under recorded, it was a long walk! Much of the walk was quite devoid of wildflowers as the footpath went through large grassed fields for livestock. However, this is what I found, and the closer I got to the tidal Thames, the more interesting it became. This first plant is usually associated with urban walls. It frequently escapes into the wild and it can be seen in many semi-urban areas. I didn't expect to find it in the middle of a cattle field. However, in the field the farmer had dumped a lorry full of bricks and rubble, and this was growing on it, a surprise find. Yellow Corydalis Pseudofumaria lutea I found quite a bit of Bastard Cabbage along the field edges. It's a weird name to give to a plant and I'd love to know how it got this name in the dim distant past!  This is yet another yellow flowered crucifer, but

This day was overcast with occassional heavy showers, so it was a case of short walks and back to the car quick to dodge a soaking. I managed a walk of a few hundred metres along the very Western edge of the Royal Military Canal at Pett Level and here is what I photographed. Again, I'll describe them in scientific name alphabetical order. Alisma plantago-aquatica The above photos show Water Plantain. It usually grows in shallow water or by the margins of ponds, lakes and streams. It's a tall, spindly plant with big lower leaves and tiny pretty white flowers with a yellow blotch on the centre of each petal. Below is the familiar fruiting heads of Lesser Burdock, whose seeds stick to clothing with their hooked spines thus transporting them well away from the parent plant. This plant's seeds were the inspiration for the inventor of Velcro and nice fizzy drinks were made from it as well. Other common names from the past include, Hurr-b