ID on this flower please

[Shirley Roulston]

, there was a large area covered in this flower, the Sp'Woods were all over it. My friend Margaret Woods said there were Orange Tips all up here lane and of course I was too late and they had all gone but this is the flower they were on and I thought it was flowering nettle but I have just seen it on sighting that it is in fact Garlic Mustard, silly me.

Shirley

[Dave McCormick]

The second flower is Garlic Mustard which OTs like to feed on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic_Mustard

First, I think might be Cow Wheat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melampyrum_pratense not sure, looks like it though

[geniculata]

hi shirley,
the flower with cream coloured tubular bells is soft comfrey (symphytum orientale).

gary.

[Shirley Roulston]

Thanks Gary, I've never heard of that one before, yours was close Dave but it was whiteish pink not yellow, I'll get a better photo tomorrow.
Shirley

[Dave McCormick]

About the comfery, might be right. Its growing all around here where I live, shoud have noticed it before. Think its a little early for cow wheat, not sure.

[Shirley Roulston]

It is right Dave, last night I got my flower books out and there it was, I've never seen it before. It is in a wood, a very shady area and damp. To-day the weather is cloudy. typical.
Shirley

[Susie]

Is soft comfrey the same as creeping comfrey? I have creeping comfrey in the garden and the flowers look just like that. It's a great ground cover plant and the bees love it.

[geniculata]

hi susie,
soft comfrey is an introduced garden perennial.
common and tuberous are both native perenials, common being robust up to a metre high and coming in a range of colours from white, to pink and blue.
tuberous our other native is cream and smaller with a tuberous root.
both common and tuberous flower later than soft which flowers from april.
you need to remember its stature, colour and when it flowered, the name creeping is not one i know and is maybe a regional common name,
but if its cream flowered and fairly short, as it was in your garden, my bet would be soft.

gary