Ivydene Gardens Blue Wildflowers Note Gallery: |
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Plant Height from Text Border |
Blue = 0-24 inches (0-60 cms) |
Green=24-72 inches (60-180 cms) |
Red = 72+ inches (180+ cms) |
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Plant Soil Moisture from Text Background |
Wet Soil |
Moist Soil |
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Click on thumbnail to change this comparison page to the Plant Description Page of the plant named in the Text box below the photo. |
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VIOLET Heath Dog Violet |
BUTTER-CUP Celery-Leaved Butter-cup |
BUTTER-CUP Globe Flower HAY MEAD-OWS, RIVER BANKS, LAKE MARG-INS, OPEN WOOD-LAND |
BUTTER-CUP Marsh Marigold EDGES OF RIVERS, LAKES, WINTER-WET MEAD-OWS Mar-Jun |
BUTTER-CUP Mousetail SANDY FIELDS, SEA-WALLS
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BUTTER-CUP Pheas-ant's Eye ARABLE WEED ON DRY SOILS ON CHALK Jun - onwards |
BUTTER-CUP Winter Aconite OPEN WOOD-LAND, GARD-ENS AND ROAD VERGES. DIES BACK IN SUMMER Jan-Mar |
BUTTER-CUP Mar-May |
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CRUCIF-ER Common Wart Cress DRY OR WINTER-WET FARM-YARDS, PATHS, GATE-WAYS May - onwards |
CRUCIF-ER Common Winter-cress May-Jul |
CRUCIF-ER Creeping Yellow Cress SITES FLOODED IN WINTER, EDGES OF RIVERS, DITCHES Jun - onwards |
CRUCIF-ER Feb-Sep |
CRUCIF-ER Garden Radish GARDEN ESCAPE OR FROM BIRD-SEED ON TIPS AND WASTE PLACES May - onwards |
CRUCIF-ER Mar - onwards |
CRUCIF-ER Jun- onwards |
CRUCIF-ER Sheph-herd's Purse (rubella) WEED IN GARDENS CULT-IVATED FIELDS WITH BROAD-LEAVED CROPS |
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Lesser Club-moss |
Stags-horn Club-moss |
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BAR-BERRY. Oregon Grape HEDGE-ROWS, ROAD VERGES, WOOD-LAND Mar-May |
CRUCIF-ER Barge-man's Cabbage RIVER AND CANAL BANKS, ROAD-SIDES, ARABLE FIELDS, TIPS Apr- onwards |
CRUCIF-ER May-onwards |
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CRUCIF-ER Coralroot Bitter-cress |
CRUCIF-ER May-Jul |
CRUCIF-ER Jun-Aug |
HORSE-TAIL Giant Horsetail |
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POPPY Jun-Aug |
POLY-PODY Soft Shield Fern |
UMBELL-IFER |
UMBELL-IFER |
PINK Ragged Robin MARSHES AND WOODS May-Jul |
UMBELL-IFER Alexand-ers Apr-Jun |
UMBELL-IFER |
UMBELL-IFER Jun-Aug |
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UMBELL-IFER Jul-Sep |
UMBELL-IFER Jun - onwards |
UMBELL-IFER Jul-Sep |
UMBELL-IFER |
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POLY-PODY Common Buckler Fern |
POLY-PODY Crested Buckler Fern |
POLY-PODY Male Fern |
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BUTTER-CUP Travell-er's Joy CHALK Jul-Sep |
REED-MACE False Bulrush |
REED-MACE Lesser Bulrush Jun-Aug |
SPINDLE TREE Spindle-Tree May-Jun |
BUCK-THORN Alder Buck-thorn |
BUCK-THORN Common Buck-thorn |
TAMARIX Jul-Oct |
ROYAL FERN Royal Fern |
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WATER-MILFOIL IN LAKES, PONDS, RIVERS, CANALS AND DITCHES ON CHALK SOIL Jun-Sep |
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Site design and content copyright ©January 2016. Photos and other details added February 2017. Chris Garnons-Williams. |
Marjorie Blamey's Wild Flowers by Colour by Marjorie Blamey (ISBN 0-7136-7237-4. Published by A & C Black Publishers Ltd in 2005) has illustrations of each wild flower of Britain and Northern Europe split into the following 13 colours. Instead of colour illustrations, this plant gallery has thumbnail pictures of wild flowers of Britain in the same colour split system:-
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Wildflowers with Fruit or Seed Colours |
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Wildflower Common Plant Name Click on Underlined Text
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Flowering Months Click on Underlined Text |
Habitat Click on Underlined Text |
Number of Petals Without Petals. |
Foliage Colour |
Height x Spread in inches (cms) (1 inch = 2.5 cms, |
Comment Click on Underlined Botanical Name
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Most Poisonous member of genus Ranunculus. An annual of shallow water or wet, disturbed, nutrient-rich mud, especially at the edges of ponds, ditches, streams or rivers which are poached by drinking livestock. It is salt-tolerant and frequent on grazed estuarine marshes. Its seeds are long-lived and plants can re-appear following disturbance after many years of absence. |
5 Petals Visited by flies |
Pale green |
24 x 12 (60 x 30) |
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A perennial herb of cool, damp habitats, including hay meadows, stream and river banks, lake margins, open woodland and rock ledges. It prefers basic soils, and is often associated with limestone. It is sensitive to grazing, but can persist as small, non-flowering plants in the uplands. |
10 Petals |
Dark Green above, paler beneath |
24 x 24 (60 x 60) |
Wet pastures, fens, scrub and woods. Visited by various small insects. Poisonous. |
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A perennial herb of various wet habitats, usually neutral to base-rich rather than very acidic, including Alnus carr, the edges of rivers, streams, canals, lakes and ponds, ditches and winter-wet meadows and pastures. |
5 Petals |
Glossy Dark Green |
18 x 18 (45 x 45) Visited by a great variety of insects for pollen and nectar. |
Caltha palustris In marshes, fens, ditches and wet woods, becoming most luxuriant in part shade; rare on very base-poor peat. |
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with minute Pale Greenish-Yellow flowers, which are solitary on long leafless staks and produce each an elongated cylindrical plantain-like fruiting head of tiny nutlets, fancifully resembling a mouse's tail |
An annual of seasonally flooded, nutrient-rich soils in areas disturbed by machinery or animals, such as hollows on ploughed land, rutted tracks and gateways in pastures. Its seeds appear to be long-lived. |
5 Petals |
Green grass-like but rather fleshy leaves in a basal tuf |
4 x 6 Visited by small flies for the nectar secreted in the petals, but usually self-pollinated. |
Damp arable sandy fields or bare grass fields and by sea-walls in the lowlands of England and Wales |
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White or Lilac coloured, with a purple patch at the base of the lilac petals in June-August followed by black or white seeds in seed pods |
An annual occurring as a casual garden escape on roadsides, waste ground and rubbish tips, and occasionally in arable fields as a relic of cultivation for poppy seed. |
Petals 2+2, fugacious - plant parts that wither or fall off before the usual time -, crumpled in bud |
Greyish-green, waxy, often hairless, with wavy, coarsely toothed leaves clasping the stem. |
24-48 x 12 (60-120 x 30) |
Papaver somniferum The capsule enlarges after flowering and makes a decorative cut flower fresh or dried. Grow in Gravel Garden or Wildflower meadow. |
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Yellow flowers followed by Black berries |
An evergreen shrub which spreads rapidly by stolons and can become well established in hedgerows, road verges and woodland. |
The 6 bright yellow petals are enclosed by 6 bright yellow sepals. |
Glossy Pinnate Green, turning Red in winter |
48 x 36 (120 x 90) Pollinated by various insects. Its berries attract birds. |
Commonly planted for pheasant cover. Use its spiny leaflets in a boundary hedge. |
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An arable weed of dry soils on chalk and limestone, also recorded from tracks, chalk pits and other disturbed habitats. Seed production is low but there is a long-lived soil seed bank. Most populations are small and restricted to field edges. |
5-8 Petals |
Green feathery foliage |
16 x 6 Pollinated by bees. |
In chalky cornfields in Southern England |
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Traveller's Joy |
Jul-Sep |
A climbing perennial with liana-like woody stems, often covering large areas on hedge banks, hedges and walls, trees and scrub, sand dunes, disused quarry faces and ruins. It is a classic railway plant. On base-rich soils, or utilising lime mortar, the plant can form virtual monocultures. |
Without Petals. It has 4 sepals instead. See text in Simple Shape of Flower is 3 Petals Page, which shows where petals and sepals are. |
Dark Green |
300 x 180 (750 x 450) |
When the plant has finished flowering, the developing seeds (known as achenes – an achene is a one seeded fruit) retain part of the flower – the style. This has long, silky hairs, which form the grey tufted balls that are so conspicuous in some woodlands and hedgerows in autumn and winter. These are, indeed, the ‘old man’s beard’. These silky structures are important in the dispersal of the seeds. /NOTE |
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Common Name |
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Water and Marshland |
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american lady's tresses |
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angelica |
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bay willow |
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bog myrtle |
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buttonweed |
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eue-de-cologne mint |
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fen bedstraw |
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flowering rush |
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galingale |
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holy grass |
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marsh st john's wort |
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meadowsweet |
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sea wormwood |
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stinking goosefoot |
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sweet flag |
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tubular water dropwort |
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water avens |
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water mint |
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White Water-lily is |
Visited by few insects and probably self-pollinated. It grows in lakes, ponds, the backwaters of rivers or large ditches, and occasionally in mires. It tolerates a wide range of water chemistry but lacks submerged leaves and is therefore vulnerable to disturbance by boats. Plant Nymphaea Alba with up to 90cm of water over the top of the basket in a still, sunny position. |
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wild celery |
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yellow flag |
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Yellow Water Lily (Brandy-bottle, Spatter-dock) |
Yellow Water Lily (Brandy-bottle, Spatter-dock) is |
Visited by small flies. The leaves of this perennial water-lily are erect rather than floating. It is occasionally grown in gardens, and has been recorded as planted from lakes and ponds, where it then becomes naturalised through rhizomatous growth; reproduction by seed has not been reported. In lakes, ponds and streams throughout the British Isles, scarce in North Scotland |
Waste Ground (usually in Sandy Soil) |
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Alexanders |
Alexanders is |
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birthwort |
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borage |
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breckland catchfly |
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caraway |
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chinese mugwort |
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common chamomile |
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common melilot |
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common mullein |
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coriander |
Coriander is |
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dame's violet |
Dame's Violet is Hesperis matronalis |
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dwarf elder |
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elder |
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fenugreek |
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feverfew |
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fragrant evening primrose |
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gorse |
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ground-pine |
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henbane |
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motherwort |
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musk storksbill |
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musk thistle |
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pineapple weed |
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ploughman's spikenard |
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scented mayweed |
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slender wart cress |
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spiny rest-harrow |
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sticky groundsel |
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stinking hawksbeard |
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stinkweed |
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stone parsley |
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tansy |
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tree lupin |
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wall rocket |
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white butterbur |
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white melilot |
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wild catmint |
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winter heliotrope |
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wormwood |
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Limestone Cliff and Quarry |
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alpine forget-me-not |
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burnet rose |
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fennel |
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great orme berry |
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great sea stock |
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hoary stock |
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houndstongue |
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pale st john's wort |
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rose-root |
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sea holly |
Sea Holly is |
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sweet alison |
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Old Walls |
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buddleia |
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clove pink |
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common pink |
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common snapdragon |
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wall germander |
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wall rocket |
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wallflower |
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BLUE WILD FLOWER GALLERY FLOWER COLOUR Comparison Page, Number of Petals List:- |
BLUE WILD FLOWER GALLERY Lists of:- Flowering plants of Chalk and Limestone Page 1 Flowering plants of Acid Soil Pollinator.
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BLUE WILD FLOWER GALLERY Habitat Lists:- |
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WILD FLOWER GALLERY
SEED COLOUR BED PICTURES HABITAT TABLES WILDFLOWER INDEX
See Explanation of Structure of this Website with User Guidelines to aid your use of this website. |
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See current Wildflower Common Name Index link Table for more wildflower of the UK common names together with their names in languages from America, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. See current Wildflower Botanical Name Index link table for wildflower of the United Kingdom (Great Britain) botanical names.
After clicking on the WILD FLOWER Common Name INDEX link to Wildflower Family Page; locate that Common name on that Wildflower Family Page, then Click on Underlined Text in:- Common Name to view that Plant Description Page |
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The plants in the following rows come from lists in The Scented Flowers of Britain - A guide to all British plants with scented flowers, leaves, stems of roots - their history and their uses by Roy Genders (ISBN 0 00 211796 7) Published in 1971 Common Name |
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Angular Solomon's Seal |
Angular Solomon's Seal is |
The greenish-white flowers are tubular. They have a powerful sweet scent and are followed by black globose fruits. In bloom Jun-Jul. Lily Family. A rhizomatous, perennial herb of ancient Fraxinus woods, often growing in crevices and on outcrops of limestone. Graphic of Echtes Salomonssiegel (Polygonatum odoratum). By Kristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 15:29, 14 May 2005 (UTC) via Wikimedia Commons. |
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Apple Mint (Round-leaved Mint) |
Apple mint (round-leaved mint) is |
Apple mint is cultivated as a culinary herb and is used in the production of mint sauce and jelly. A rhizomatous perennial herb of damp places. It is probably native only in South-West England and Wales, and elsewhere occurs as a garden escape, often forming extensive colonies on roadsides and waste ground. Apple scented white flowers in Aug-Sep. Graphic of Mentha suaveolens - Place:Osaka,Japan. By I, KENPEI via Wikimedia Commons. |
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Barberry is |
Flies and bees. Red berries produced in September-October, which are eaten by the birds, who also use them for nest-sites. Bright lemon-yellow flowers in May-Jun. BARBERRY Family. Use as a deciduous shrub in hedgerows and coppices, and on banks, cliffs and waste ground in deciduous woodlands. Use as external hedge where the sharp spines on the twigs and the sharply toothed leaves act as an animal or human deterrent. Its deleterious effect on wheat crops was appreciated before it was known to be a host of the rust Puccinia graminis and consequently eradicated from many hedgerows in the 19th century. |
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Bird cherry |
Prunus padus |
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birdsnest orchid |
neottia nidus-avis |
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black currant |
ribes nigrum |
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black poplar |
populus nigra |
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bluebell |
Bluebell is |
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box |
Topiary and hedges because of its small leaves, evergreen nature, tolerance of close shearing, and scented foliage. An evergreen shrub or small tree, native to woodlands and thickets on steep slopes on chalk, and in scrub on chalk downland. It is popular for hedging in gardens and is often planted in woodlands, often becoming naturalised. |
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butterfly orchid |
platanthera chlorantha |
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Columbine |
Columbine is |
Native populations of this perennial are found on calcareous soil over limestone rocks in England and Wales. It typically grows in woodland glades and open scrub, by woodland rides and streamsides, in damp grassland and fen, and on scree slopes. Garden escapes can be naturalised in quarries, on roadsides, railway banks and old walls. Visited by long-tongued humble-bees for pollen and nectar. A local plant of woods and wet places on calcareous soil or fen peat. |
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common st john's wort |
hypericum perfoliatum |
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common valerian |
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ground ivy |
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guelder rose |
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herb bennet |
geum urbanum |
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herb paris |
paris quadrifolia |
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honeysuckle |
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lady's slipper |
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lily of the valley |
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lizard orchid |
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mezeron |
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privet |
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ramsons |
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red dead-nettle |
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rowan |
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snowdrop |
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Stinking Hellebore (Bear's-foot) |
Stinking Hellebore (Bear's-foot) is Helleborus foetidus
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Trimethylamine is present in the flowers, which gives off an unpleasant smell to attract midges and bluebottles for their pollination. Visited by early bees and other insects. Seeds said to be dispersed by ants. Compounds of sulphur are present and the whole plant emits a most unpleasant smell, especially when handled, hence its country name of Stinking Hellebore. A short-lived perennial herb of shallow calcareous soils. It is a poor competitor, and intolerant of deep shade, so is usually found in small colonies in woodland glades or open scrub, on scree slopes, rock ledges, hedge banks, and as an introduction in churchyards. Adult plants near senescence (4-5 years old) are typically found with a cohort of seedlings. Woods and scrub on chalk and limestone in Southern England. |
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summer lady's tresses |
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sweet violet |
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turkscap lily |
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tutsan |
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wild angelica |
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wild daffodil |
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wild tulip |
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woodland hawthorn |
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creeping lady's tresses |
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heath bedstraw |
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lesser butterfly orchid |
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st olafs candlestick |
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scots pine |
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twinflower |
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Hedgerows |
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agrimony |
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black horehound |
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bladder campion |
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crab apple |
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chervil |
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crosswort |
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dog rose |
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dog's mercury |
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dogwood |
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field rose |
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fragrant agrimony |
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garlic mustard |
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hairy st john's wort |
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hawthorn |
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hedge woundwort |
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hoary plantain |
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holly |
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hop |
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horsemint |
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Wild Arum |
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mugwort |
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musk mallow |
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parsley |
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pear |
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peppermint |
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perfoliate honeysuckle |
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pink masterwort |
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spearmint |
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sweet cicely |
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sweet violet |
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sweetbriar |
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Traveller's Joy |
Traveller's Joy |
Visited by pollen-collecting bees and pollen-eating flies, especially Syrphids. A climbing perennial with liana-like woody stems, often covering large areas on hedge banks, hedges and walls, trees and scrub, sand dunes, disused quarry faces and ruins. It is a classic railway plant. On base-rich soils, or utilising lime mortar, the plant can form virtual monocultures. In hedgerows, thickets and wood-margins chiefly on calcareous rocks or soils. The climbing Clematises most commonly grown in British gardens, with large violet to purple flowers, are hybrids of the Chinese Clematis lanuginosa with the Southern European Clematis viticella (Clematis x jackmanii Th. Moore), or with the Chinese Clematis patens (Clematis x lawsoniata Moore & Jackman). The viticella hybrids are later-flowering than the patens hybrids, and have usually only 4 sepals instead of 6-8. Clmatis montana DC, and Asiatic species, is also much grown for its profusion of smallish white or pink flowers. When the plant has finished flowering, the developing seeds (known as achenes – an achene is a one seeded fruit) retain part of the flower – the style. This has long, silky hairs, which form the grey tufted balls that are so conspicuous in some woodlands and hedgerows in autumn and winter. These are, indeed, the ‘old man’s beard’. These silky structures are important in the dispersal of the seeds. |
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white campion |
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white dead-nettle |
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woodruff |
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yellow archangel |
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Autumn lady's tresses |
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cambridge parsley |
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clary |
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common star of bethlehem |
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corn chamomile |
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corn mint |
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corn parsley |
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creeping thistle |
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elecampane |
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field bindweed |
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field scabious |
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fritillary |
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golden chervil |
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meadowsweet |
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night-flowering catchfly |
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Ox-Eye Daisy |
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum |
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pennyroyal |
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pepper saxifrage |
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Red clover |
Red Clover is Trifolium pratense |
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spring crocus |
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stinking chamomile |
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sweet vernal grass |
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White clover |
White Clover is Trifolium repens |
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yarrow |
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bastard balm |
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burnt-tip orchid |
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cheddar pink |
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chives |
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common calamint |
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corsican mint |
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creeping rest-harrow |
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frog orchid |
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green-winged orchid |
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hay-scented buckler fern |
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herb robert |
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juniper |
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lady orchid |
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lady's bedstraw |
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large wild thyme |
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lesser evening primrose |
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man orchid |
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marjoram |
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meadow sage |
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moschatel |
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musk orchid |
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nottingham catchfly |
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purple hawkweed |
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pyramidal orchid |
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rigid buckler fern |
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salad burnet |
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scented orchid |
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slender st john's wort |
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small white orchid |
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smooth rupture-wort |
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snowflake |
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spignel-meu |
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spring squill |
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squinancy wort |
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western gorse |
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white horehound |
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wild basil |
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wild liquorice |
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wild thyme |
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