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Requests about identification of wild plants in Malta and Gozo. (Please include precise details and pictures to help the experts in their ID process)

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ononis

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I always tend to overlook these little plants ...this is 3 to 6 inches high ...flower 8mm - 1 cm ...it looks like ononis and is sticky like big brother natrix - is it Ononis ornithopodioides perhaps ?
no other idea quite frankly

illuminate the stupid wolf please
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seems like it :wink:

You underestimate yourself, dear Wolf!
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could be (not quite sure because pretty young)
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could be O. sieberi
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Post by wolf »

jack - why pretty young if in flower ?
all plants in the area were about same size 4 -7 inches tall

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I got the impression that it is young and could be develop to a shrub (like Ononis natrix...where young plants look like this one).. You should try to make later a pic of ripe fruits.
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Post by wolf »

thanks Jack.... maybe I will....or go next year same time see how huge they are !!
It's nice to know sometimes the real experts like you and sdravko get a bit uncertain too ...gives some hope for the rest of us

thanks

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quite sure its sieberi since everything that looks like that one turned out to be sieberi but having the plant is sometimes better
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