Canton street plants during the lockdown

One of my favourite mosses towards sunset – Pohlia nutans – nodding thread-moss or copperwire moss

I used to wander the streets of Canton in Cardiff quite often, taking pictures of the street plants, but it has been some years now (see previous posts here). The current Covid-19 lockdown has revived my interest as I am now able to leave the house only rarely, for some exercise.

The majority of the pictures here were taken on a walk to the post office and the great thing about it was that there were so few people out and about that most of the time I was alone with the plants…

This was a new one to me but I think it is a form of Valerianella – corn salad or lamb’s lettuce

An old favourite – ivy-leaved toadflax (Cymbalaria muralis)…

…however tiny, the flowers attract bees

Forget-me-not (Myosotis scorpioides)

Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum)

Red valerian (Centranthus ruber)

Lesser celandine (Ficaria verna) with stems of cleavers or goose grass (Galium aparine)

Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris)

I think this will grow up to be wall lettuce (Latuca muralis)

Maidenhair spleenwort (Asplenium trichomanes)

Possibly wall-rue (Asplenium ruta-muraria)?

Possibly another species of Asplenium

Possibly a tree – birch?

Buddleia davidii gets everywhere – this was in a deserted council car park

Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus)

Unidentified tree

Many of the walls pictured above belong to the Chapter Arts Centre building, which used to be Canton High School, built in 1905…

In the bright afternoon sunshine this decoration on the side of the Chapter Arts Centre building stood out

Finally here’s that moss again from the top of this post. Occasionally I still add to my Mosses Identification Project page…

Pohlia nutans on top of a Canton wall

How small our worlds have become now…