Spring 2020 around Waterloo

In March / April been restricted to the flora of the Waterloo area (but that is what I am studying anyway). Principally the streets and the Rimrose Valley.
There is an interesting article on the flowering times of urban Cambridge by Chris PrestonThe phenology of an urban street flora: a transect study in British and Irish Botany at https://britishandirishbotany.org/index.php/bib/article/view/44

Mouse-ear leaves, it’s how it gets the name.

Cherry in flower.

Garlic Mustard

Slender Speedwell Veronica filiformis.

Field Horsetail in spore

Wood Forget-me-not, as pavement plants originating from gardens.

Honesty

Silver Birch

Larch coming into leaf.

Danish Scurvy Grass

Hornbeam catkins

cherry blossom

Gorse

Common Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha ssp.ruderalis

Wild Cherry

Ivy-leaved Speedwell

Common Whitlow Grass

Ivy-leaved Toadflax on wall

Dogwood flower bud

Ash bud

Buddleia growing on chimney

Poplar catkins

Green Alkanet

Hairy Bittercress

Bonfire Moss Funaria hygrometrica

Coltsfoot

Grey-cushioned Grimmia Moss Grimmia pulvinata

Spring Beauty as wall top plant

Marble Gall Andricus kollari gall on oak

Common Whitlow Grass as wall top plant

Rue- leaved Saxifrage as wall top plant

Red - dead nettle

Rust fungus Puccinia phragmitis on dock leaf

Herb Robert

Gall on willow, but it’s causer is still uncertain - virus or phytoplasma probably. Very common on most willows, most noticeable in winter.

Daisy

Coltsfoot

Sunrise over Waterloo

Garden Pansy in pavement cracks

Sticky Mouse-ear flower buds

Polypody Fern