Plant ID from leaves

[MWP admin]

Here are 3 photo of 2 plants

Plant A (2 photos): Is a prostrate plant found on patches of soil on basre rock. I wonder if it is something uncommon or not


Plant B (1 photo): I can't recal to which plant these pinnate leaves belong to, though they are familiar somehow.

Any Ideas what plant A or B might be. Both seen at Wied Incita.

[MWP admin]

I think Plant 1, with the pinatifid leaves is the Wild carrot (so nothing special about it). Still clueless and searching for plant 2... (wish to be Maltese toadflax!!)

[jackpot]

plant 1 ok
plant 2 I don`t think so- it is hairy. Malt. Toadf. should be glabrous...

[MWP admin]

Maybe the photo is tricky, but the white hair-like thing is nothing more than dew and water droplets. There is a part in the pic (maybe where I handled the plant to examine it) which has no water droplet (or 'hair') and it is somehow glabrous. I can't personally recall if it is glabrous or not, but I can always go and recheck.

Although morphologically it could be Maltese toadflax, I am not 100% convinced about it becasue it is stated that it prefers arid, dry places, while this was found in a valley bank (quite damp). I am more leaned to mediterranean toadflax, the one of the 4 toadflax plants reported by Haslam to be found in wied incita, but on the other side it was not growing in cultivated land like fields, but in a rock pocket with some soil.

[MWP admin]

I examined in depth again some other photos of this plant and I could confirm Jackpot that actually it is not galbrous. The stems are covered with very soft erect white hair. The leaves probably the same. What could it be then?

[MWP admin]

Went again to wied incita specificaly for checking this plant (and seeds of Clematis cirrhosa) and I confirm it is hairy. Pubescent I would describe - short, fine, white, moderately dense on the stem, less on the leaves.

So it is not the glabrous Maltese Toadflax

[jackpot]

Admini- I suppose it is Kickxia spuria