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I cannot delete a post, so this is what the former post should have said: About Cakile maritima : It is the specimen in the first picture (from Bisqra) that I think differs a lot from the other specimens. Unfortunately, when I took that pic in March there were no siliculas present. Ssp. baltica is ...

From now on I will upload one species at a time as you suggest. About Brassica napus ssp. oleifera 1. I gave a wrong information. As a matter of fact it is Brassica napus ssp. napus which colours the Danish countryside yellow at the moment. 2. Concerning the specimen in the picture I was so sure, it ...

No. 3. Leaves are much more fleshy than in the first pic.

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In Denmark we have two subspecies of Cakile maritima . According to Flora Europaea there are only one subspecies in Malta. But I think that the specimen in the first pic with clearly pinnatisect leaves, looks very different from the specimens in pic 2 and 3. Do any of the local floras recognize more ...

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Hirschfeldia incana is very rare in Denmark. But I really cannot think of other species looking just like it. Three pics.

Not sure if I got the subspecies correct.

Brassica napus ssp. oleifera colours many of the fields yellow in Denmark at the moment. Flora Europaea reports that there are numerous different classifications of Brassica napus cultivars. I first found out about this when I was back in Denmark. So next time I will maybe have to take more pics ...

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I know Diplotaxis muralis very well from Denmark, and D. tenuifolia I have only seen a few times.

I was sure though that I had taken pics of both species in Malta, but now I realize that all my pics are almost certainly of D. tenuifolia. Here are three specimens.

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I have never seen Diplotaxis erucoides before. I think the next three pics must be it, but I am not sure.

I have never seen a Biscutella species before. It is beautiful. Are there more than one species of this genus in Malta?

Close-up of same species.

This one I found in many places, and I think it must be Lobularia, which I know from gardens in Denmark.

Same specimen, a closer look.

Flora Europaea only knows of ssp. incana and ssp. rupestris. I guess this is ssp. melitensis. How does this subspecies differ?

Same specimen with focus on leaves.

Here come some species where I am almost certain my identifications are correct.

We have four more or less common Sisymbrium species in Denmark. S. irio is very rare, and I have never seen it myself. But I think this one could be S. irio.

Stephen,

The original photo of Spergula rubra is 5 Mb large, and therefore I cannot attach it to e-mails at my home pc. I will send it to you tomorrow along with other photoes from the pc at the nature centre, where file size isn't an issue.

I searched hard for open fresh water around Bisqra, and I only managed to find a small stream with R. conglomeratus, I suppose, growíng on the almost dried out rivedbed.

I've done a bit of botanical detective work on species B without coming to any definitve conclusion. As it is right now my best guess is Euphorbia terracina.

Thanks for the response.

Beta, pic. 2.

I end this thread with three pics of B. vulgaris ssp. maritima. I'm quite sure they are all that species, but I just have this little doubt: Could it be something else that I'm not aware of because I'm not familiar with the Maltese flora?

High and more greenish variant of C. muralis.