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Yesterday
No just a co-incidence - or you are getting slow

Eryngium ovinum
Mike wrote:
Yesterday
Hi @MichaelMulvaney, are you just waiting at the computer for sightings to come in? You beat me and CarbonAI.

Eryngium ovinum
Tapirlord wrote:
Yesterday
My suggestion was based off the sighting notes which say the plant was flowering in mid April. That would make it either G.Sylvicola or G.muelleriana at this altitude. It would be quite late and quite high for G.polysperes.

Gentianella polysperes
Csteele4 wrote:
7 Jan 2025
@Tapirlord doing the clean-up. Only one sighting for your suggested species on iNat, and it is by Jackie Miles, who left very comprehensive notes. Using those notes and PlantNet, my conclusion is that this is unlikely to be G sylvicola (her specimen was flowering in April) and instead is G polysperes. Thoughts?

Gentianella polysperes
7 Jan 2025
Checking the descriptions on plantNET, it says that H. japonicum can be prostrate or procumbent. It is possible I pulled the stem with the flower up a little bit to get a better picture. They were certainly not erect. The fact that the leaves are all spreading rather than stem clasping is also given as a key difference between japonicum and gramineum.

Hypericum gramineum
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