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B & T World Seeds Paguignan, 34210 Aigues Vives, France can supply seeds world-wide from over 35,000 different plants. John Chambers Wildflower Seed supplies native British produced wildflower seed from its John Chambers Wildflowers Brochure and its Green-tech Specifier Wildflowers Seeds with delivery to England, Scotland and Wales. American Meadows Quick Guide to Wildflowers contains complete planting instructions, how much seed you need, and wildflower searches by color, height, moisture and light requirements with delivery of live plants, bulbs and seeds to USA only, but only its seeds to Canada. |
"SEASONS AND MONTHS SPRING SUMMER AUTUMN WINTER " from The Wildlife Garden Month-by-Month by Jackie Bennett. Published by David & Charles in 1993 (ISBN 0 7153 0033 4). |
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See Wildflower Common Name Index link Table ON A PAGE for more wildflower of the UK common names - from Adder's Tongue to the Goosefoot Family - together with their names in languages from America, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. |
Wild Flowers as They Grow- Photographed by H. Essenhigh Corke, text by G. Clark Nuttall. Published by Cassell and Company, Ltd in 7 separate books between 1911 and 1914 contains information about UK Native Wildflowers with 1 per chapter. I have summarised some of these chapters and put those into this website, but most will simply have a reference to which book it is in for you to read it yourself. |
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Botanical Name Flowering Months Flowers Photo
Sections from edition 2 of the Plant Crib, with some updated sections from the planned edition 3, are kindly made available by Plant Crib co-editor Dr Tim Rich of Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland:- |
Height x Spread in inches (cms) WildFlower Family Page Foliage Photo |
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Form for Wildflowers:- Mat-forming These Forms are used for Bulbs with Herbaceous and Evergreen Perennials.
Shape for Evergreen Shrubs:- These Forms and Shapes are also used for Deciduous and Evergreen Shrubs and Trees. |
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Narrow Water Starwort |
Callitriche hermaphroditica
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Water Starwort Family Callitrichaceae are aquatic plants with weak thread-like stems and entire oposite leaves. Flowers, minute, stalkless in the axils of the leaves; fruit of 4 druplets. A family of 1 genus - Callitriche - showing considerable plasticity of form under different conditions. circa 7 species. See Online Atlas of the British & Irish Flora for descriptions of other Callitriche species.
Form Above 2 small photos were taken by Ron or Christine Foord last century |
This species occurs in mesotrophic lakes, canals and gravel-pits. It is usually annual, although some populations may perennate. 0-390 m at Drumore Loch (E. Perth). Provides forage and cover for young fish and aquatic insects. Ducks eat seeds and foliage. It does not develop surface rosettes, unlike most starworts and grows mainly near the bottom of the pond. Native in pools and ditches in North Somerset, Sussex, Kent, Gloucester, Notts; Wexford(in Ireland); Guernsey of Great Britain. Native in Southern Europe and Western Europe from Crete, Greece and Dalmatia to Spain and Portugal and northwards to Brittany, Normandy and Belgium. |
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Flora of China - 线叶水马齿 xian ye shui ma chi |
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Intermediate Water Starwort |
Callitriche intermedia |
Water Starwort Family |
Distinguished by its lowest leaves, which are linear and usually abruptly widened at the apex and deeply notched, the upper leaves narrowly oblance-shaped, notched, and the floating leaves not forming a well-marked rosette. Fruit almost circular, carpels keeled, not winged. Native and widespread in Europe. |
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Common Water Starwort
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Callitriche palustris
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Water Starwort Family
Form Above 4 small photos were taken by Ron or Christine Foord last century |
An annual or possibly perennial herb, which was discovered growing on clay in the dry bed of a turlough in Co. Galway in 1999. In Europe it is recorded from ephemeral water bodies, particularly lakes with marked water level fluctuations, temporary pools and rutted tracks, and is most frequent as a terrestrial form on wet mud. Native in ditches, pools and wet mud. Scattered throughout the British Isles, but either rare or often overlooked. Native in southern Europe; Siberia, North Africa; North America. |
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Common Starwort |
Callitriche stagnalis |
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Lowest leaves elliptic or spathulate, never linear; the uppermost floating leaves forming a rosette with broadly elliptic or almost circular blades abruptly narrowed to the stalk. Fruit broader than long; carpels with transparent wings in April-October. Native in all Europe. |
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Ling See Heather Shrub Gallery for further details and photos of Heathers.
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Calluna vulgaris August-September
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12-24 x 12-24 Heath Family
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A low shrub, often dominant on heaths, moors and nutrient-poor grasslands, and in open woodland on acidic soils, ranging from dry exposed habitats to wet peat bogs. It can colonise newly available habitats. Native in all Europe, except for Turkey, Hungary, Bulgaria and Albania.
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The Ling is only daunted by extreme dryness. Its tough, fibrous roots live 20 or 30 years, and throw up year by year fresh branches - wiry stems which carry tiny branchlets, which branchlets are clothed with a coat of minute leaves arranged in 4 neat rows and overlapping tiles on a roof. But minute as these leaves - they run 30 or so to the 0.5 inch (12mm) - they are stalkless and of plain outline, but are rolled backwards in such a way that its edges almost meet behind, and thus the undersurface is the lining of a tunnel.It is into this tunnel that all the water pores open. The object of the close pressing to the stem and the curling back is to minimise the giving off of water by the plant, and to enable it to withstand drought as much as possible. "The spreading low-growing mounds offer protection to ground-feeding birds like wrens and the insects they are seeking. Grass snakes and slow-worms may seek out the sun-soaked patches between the plants, where they are safe from human feet." from The Wildlife Garden Month-by-Month by Jackie Bennett. Published by David & Charles in 1993 (ISBN 0 7153 0033 4).
Form in Berkshire. Photo by BritishFlora
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Marsh Marigold
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Caltha palustris Glossy Yellow flowers during March-June
Flowers Above 4 small photos were taken by Ron or Christine Foord last century |
18 x 18 Buttercup Family
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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.
Form Native in all Europe, except Turkey. |
Read about Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris) in Wild Flowers as They Grow- Photographed by H. Essenhigh Corke, text by G. Clark Nuttall. Published by Cassell and Company, Ltd in Second series, in 1911. Perennial Herb with stout creeping rhizomes and erect ascending or prostrate aerial stems, which grows in marshes, fens, ditches and wet woods, becoming most luxuriant in part shade; rare on very base-poor peat, in Part Shade and wet.
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Great Bindweed (Hedge Bindweed,
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Calystegia sepium
The 3 small photos above were taken by Ron or Christine Foord |
Bindweed Family
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A perennial climber, occurring in hedges, scrub, woodland edges, tall-herb fens, in open Salix and Alnus carr, and on railway banks and waste ground. It also occurs in artificial habitats in built-up areas and near habitation.
Form Native in all Europe, except Iceland |
This plant requires the Convolvulus Hawkmoth, or the Unicorn Hawkmoth (Sphinx convolvuli) to pollinate it - details of this process are in the book. Its stems are trailers, and, as they make their way rapidly over the hedgerows, their tips are continually revovolving in a direction opposite to that of the sun - a revolution taking, usually, a little less than 2 hours. Directly the free end of the stem in its movement comes into contact with a twig or support of any sort, it is specially stimulated to twist round it, and from this point of attachment it continues its growth and revolutions. Although it dies down every year, trailing branches, 72 or 108 inches (180 or 270 cms) long, may be disentangled in the late summer time.
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Sea Bindweed
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Calystegia soldanella
Foliage The 4 small photos above were taken by Ron or Christine Foord |
Bindweed Family
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A trailing perennial herb found on sand dunes, and above the strand-line on sand and shingle beaches, often with Eryngium maritimum.
Form Native in Western Europe, Mediterranean Europe, Denmark, Germany, Bulgaria, Romania and Soviet Union. |
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Flora of China - 肾叶打碗花 shen ye da wan hua Convolvulus soldanellus Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 159. 1753; Calystegia reniformis R. Brown; C. soldanelloides Makino; Convolvulus asarifolius Salisbury; C. maritimus Lamarck; C. reniformis (R. Brown) Poiret. |
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American Bellbine (Large Bindweed,
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Calystegia sylvestris
Flowers The 4 small photos above were taken by Ron or Christine Foord |
Bindweed Family
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A climbing or scrambling perennial of hedges, fences, gardens and waste ground. It also spreads into semi-natural habitats away from habitation. Seed-set is often very poor
Form Introduced to Great Britain in hedges, bushy places, edges of woods and gardens in Northern England and Scotland. |
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Gold of Pleasure |
Camelina sativa June onwards
Campanula cervicaria - |
Crucifer (Cabbage/Mustard) 1 Family |
An annual, now occurring mainly as a casual on rubbish tips and waste ground, and in gardens. It was formerly a frequent weed of arable fields and a contaminant of flax seed. Lowland. It has been cultivated as an oilseed crop to produce vegetabe oil and animal feed. Native in most of Europe, except Iceland, Albania, Yugoslavia and Turkey. |
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Flora of China - 亚麻荠 ya ma ji Myagrum sativum Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 641. 1753; Camelina caucasica (Sinskaya) Vassilczenko; C. glabrata (de Candolle) Fritsch ex N. Zinger; C. pilosa (de Candolle) N. Zinger; C. sativa var. caucasica Sinskaya; C. sativa var. glabrata de Candolle; C. sativa var. pilosa de Candolle. |
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Clustered Bell-flower
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June onwards Campanula barbata -
The 8 small photos below were taken by Ron or Christine Foord.
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A perennial herb of calcareous grassland, scrub, open woodland, cliffs and sand dunes. It is most frequent on chalk and oolite, and curiously absent from apparently suitable habitat on other limestones and base-rich substrates. It also occurs as a garden escape on roadsides and waste ground.
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Campanula glomerata (Clustered Bellflower) slide taken by Ron or Christine Foord in June 1982. Native in most of Europe, except Portugal, Ireland, Iceland, Albania and Turkey.
Flora of China - 北疆风铃草 bei jiang feng ling cao Fifteen subspecies are recognized, three of which occur in China. |
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Ivy-leaved Bell-flower (Creeping Harebell, |
Wahlenbergia hederacea (Campanula hederacea) An extremely delicate hairless low creeping, pale green perennial with small pale blue bell-shaped flowers, on hairlike stalks longed than the stalked, somewhat ivy-shaped leaves. flowers in July-August
Flowers The 2 small photos above were taken by Ron or Christine Foord |
Bellflower Family
Form Culture - Soil, gritty, well-drained, containing plenty of well-rotted leaf-mould. Position - sunny rock gardens well supplied with moisture during the summer months. Plant - Oct-Apr. Propagation - By seeds sown in a temp of 55F in March or April; cuttings in summer; division in spring. |
A small, low-growing perennial herb found in damp, wet or boggy places on acidic soils, occurring on heaths, heathy pastures, moors, open woodland and Salix carr, and by streams and in flushes. In Ireland, it is most frequent beside streams and is absent from pastures. It prefers areas with moving, rather than standing, water.
Native in damp acid peaty places on moors, heaths and in open heathy woods in England, Scotland South-west Ireland and South-Est Ireland. Flower picture of Ivy-leaved Bellflower on Page 157 in Wild Flowers by Colour by Marjorie Blamey. Published in 2005 by A&C Black. |
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Giant Bellflower |
Campanula latifolia
Flowers The 3 small photos above were taken by Ron or Christine Foord. |
Bellflower Family
Foliage |
A large perennial herb of damp woodland, wooded riversides and hedgerows, usually on fertile, neutral or calcareous soils. It is also grown in gardens, occurring as an established alien on waste ground, roadsides and hedge banks. Generally lowland, but reaching 390 m at Ingleborough (Mid-W. Yorks.).
Form Native in most of Europe, except Portugal, Ireland, Iceland, Albania, Greece and Turkey. |
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The Bellflowers are "perennials with alternate undivided leaves, distinctive for their stalked bellshaped flowers, the corolla usually blue, with 5 short lobes; persisting above the globular fruits; stamens 5; style 1; seeds numerous." from Collins Pocket Guide to Wild Flowers by David McClintock and R.S.R. Fitter assisted by Francis Rose - ISBN 0 00 219363 9 - Eleventh Impression 1978 |
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Spreading Bell-flower |
June-July |
Bellflower Family |
A biennial herb of dry, well-drained, sunny sites on fairly infertile sandy or gravelly soils. It is found in open woodland, on banks and rock outcrops. Reproduction is by seed, which needs disturbed sites for germination, but which is long-lived, allowing the plant to reappear after long absences. Native in most of Europe, except Portugal, Ireland, Iceland and Turkey: introduced to Denmark, Norway and Sweden |
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Narrow-Leaved Bellflower |
Campanula persicifolia Apr-May |
16-40 x Bellflower Family
This was not available in Collins Pocket Guide to Wild Flowers by McClintock and Fitter in 1978 |
Distinguished by its large, open, funnel-shaped flowers, which are as broad as long and borne in a simple spike-like cluster of 2-8 flowers. Corolla blue-violet, 3-4 cm, shallowly divided into broad triangular lobes; calyx usually hairless, lobes lance-shaped, at first spreading and then erect. Native in all Europe, except Portugal, Ireland and Iceland. |
Photo of Narrow-leaved Bellflower - Campanula persicifolia - taken in July 1984 by Ron or Christine Foord.
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Photo White-flowered Narrow-Leaved Bellflower - Campanula persicifolia alba taken by Ron or Christine Foord in June 1990. |
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Creeping Bell-flower (Rampion Bellflower) is Edible,
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Flowers The 4 small photos above were taken by Ron or Christine Foord. |
36 x Bellflower Family
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Hedges, Wasteland and Gardens (widespread but local in hedge-banks and waste-places, usually in or near gardens)
Form Native in all Europe, except Portugal, Iceland, Albania and Turkey: introduced into Ireland. |
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The Bellflowers are "perennials with alternate undivided leaves, distinctive for their stalked bellshaped flowers, the corolla usually blue, with 5 short lobes; persisting above the globular fruits; stamens 5; style 1; seeds numerous." from Collins Pocket Guide to Wild Flowers by David McClintock and R.S.R. Fitter assisted by Francis Rose - ISBN 0 00 219363 9 - Eleventh Impression 1978 |
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Rampion Bellflower |
Erect violet bell-shaped flowers, occasionally white in June-July |
36 x Bellflower Family
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A perennial herb found naturalised in rough grassland and on roadsides, railway banks and in quarries. It also occurs as a relic of cultivation. Reproduction is from seed and rhizome fragments.
Group with pink, crimson, purple and white flowering shrub roses, flowering as it does in June and into July with the Hybrdid Musks and old shrub roses, and providing just the right contrasting colours. Native in most of Europe, except Ireland, Iceland and Norway: introduced to Denmark, Sweden and Finland. |
From Plate 54 of See illustrations on Pages 60 and 157 in Wild Flowers by Colour by Marjorie Blamey. Published in 2005 by A&C Black. Culture - Sow seeds in gentle heat in March, transplant seedlings into boxes, harden off in cold frame in May and plant out in sunny borders early in June. Naturalizes on sandy soil.
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Harebell
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Flowers blue, nodding, in a loose truss from July onwards
Flowers The 3 small photos above were taken by Ron or Christine Foord. |
6-9 x Bellflower Family
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A rhizomatous perennial herb of dry, open, infertile habitats including grassland, fixed dunes, rock ledges, roadsides and railway banks. It tolerates a wide range of soil pH, being found on both mildly acidic and calcareous substrates, and heavy-metal tolerant races are known.
Form Native in all Europe, except in Portugal and Turkey. |
See illustrations on Pages 137 and 157 in Wild Flowers by Colour by Marjorie Blamey. Published in 2005 by A&C Black. Culture of Hardy Perennial Species - Soil, ordinary, rich. Position - trailing species on sunny rock gardens. Plant - Oct-Apr. Pot Culture - Compost, equal parts leaf-mould, loam and sand. Trailing kinds grow in small pots in hanging baskets. Propagation - By seeds sown 0.0625 inches (1.5 mm) deep in sandy soil in in temp 55F in March or August; division of roots in October or April.
Hairbell Campanula rotundifolia from Wild Flowers as They Grow- Photographed by H. Essenhigh Corke, text by G. Clark Nuttall. Published by Cassell and Company, Ltd in 1912:- As the "Bluebell of Scotland", this plant found an honoured place in the verses of countless Scotch poets.
"Harebells rely on bees for pollination and are attractive to most flying insects. As part of a summer-flowering meadow they will attract many different species of butterfly including small whites." from The Wildlife Garden Month-by-Month by Jackie Bennett. Published by David & Charles in 1993 (ISBN 0 7153 0033 4). |
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Nettle-leaved Bell-flower
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Bellflower Family
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A large perennial herb, found as a native on dry, base-rich, usually calcareous soils in woodland, scrubby grassland and hedge banks; in Ireland it is also reported from river banks and swamp woodland. It is also grown in gardens, and occurs as a naturalised alien on a wider range of soils and habitats.
Form Native in all Europe, except Iceland. |
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Shepherd's Purse
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Capsella bursa-pastoris
Flowers with seeds The above 4 small photos were taken by Ron or Christine Foord. |
18 x 12 Crucifer (Cabbage/Mustard) 2 Family
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An annual, germinating throughout the year in suitable conditions and ubiquitous in many disturbed and nutrient-rich habitats. It is an abundant weed on waste ground and in gardens, and is frequent in cultivated fields, particularly amongst broad-leaved crops. It avoids the wettest and most acidic soils. It has a very long-lived seed bank.
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Shepherd's Purse Capsella bursa-pastoris from Wild Flowers as They Grow- Photographed by H. Essenhigh Corke, text by G. Clark Nuttall. Published by Cassell and Company, Ltd in 7 separate books between 1911 and 1914. "Annual to biennial herb with simple and branched hairs is Common everywhere on moist cultivated land, waysides and waste places of the UK in full sun. It has Mid green basal leaves in a rosette with White flowers throughout the year followed by pale brown seeds with up to 12 in each pod.
It is visited by small insects and automatically self-pollinated. There is a bright red and white flowered version in Shepherd's Purse (Capsella rubella) page.
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Flora of China - 荠 qi This species is used as a vegetable and in the treatment of eye diseases and dysentery. It is the second most common weed on Earth. |
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Large Bittercress Used within lifecycle of Butterfly Orange Tip,
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Cardamine amara May-June
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24 x 18 Crucifer (Cabbage/Mustard) 2 Family
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A perennial winter-green herb of streamsides and marshes, wet meadows and wet woodland, often growing in slow-moving or still water, preferring an acidic substrate and tolerant of shade. Native throughout Europe, except the extreme south-east.
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Photo from Flowers of Europe A Field Guide by Oleg Polunin. Published by Oxford University Press in 1969.
"Perennial herb with a horizontal creeping stock from which roots and stolons arise. Stems prostrate at the base then erect or ascending. Oval pale green basal leaves not in a rosette, stalked and pinnate. Plant of springs, flushes, fens and streamsides, chiefly on peat, throughout Great Britain. A ground-flora dominant in alder woods with moving ground-water, and occuring in other types of damp woodland. It grows in wet soil in part shade. It has White flowers in April-June and is visited by various small insects." from Large Bittercress page.
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Heath, Ling or Heather Calluna vulgaris from Wild Flowers as They Grow- Photographed by H. Essenhigh Corke, text by G. Clark Nuttall. Published by Cassell and Company, Ltd in 7 separate books between 1911 and 1914:-
Hedge Convolvulus Convolvulus sepium from Wild Flowers as They Grow- Photographed by H. Essenhigh Corke, text by G. Clark Nuttall. Published by Cassell and Company, Ltd in 7 separate books between 1911 and 1914:-
UKButterflies Larval Foodplants website page lists the larval foodplants used by British butterflies. The name of each foodplant links to a Google search. An indication of whether the foodplant is a primary or secondary food source is also given. Please note that the Butterfly you see for only a short time has grown up on plants as an egg, caterpillar and chrysalis for up to 11 months, before becoming a butterfly. If the plants that they live on during that time are removed, or sprayed with herbicide, then you will not see the butterfly. |
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Eggs laid in batches encircling the branch of the food plant. |
Hatches after 18-22 days in April. |
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Egg, |
Groups of eggs on upper side of leaf. |
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Egg, |
1 egg at base of plant. |
Late August-April |
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Egg, |
Groups of eggs on upper side of leaf. |
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Egg, |
1 egg laid on underside of leaflets or bracts. |
7 days in June. |
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Egg, |
1 egg laid on underside of leaflets or bracts. |
7 days in June. |
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Egg, |
1 egg laid under the leaf or on top of the flower. |
7 days in August. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on underside of a flower bud on its stalk. |
7 days. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on underside of a flower bud on its stalk. |
7 days. |
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Egg, |
1 egg under leaf. |
10 days in May-June. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on leaf. |
2 weeks |
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Cabbages - ELarge White eats all cruciferous plants, such as cabbages, mustard, turnips, radishes, cresses, nasturtiums, wild mignonette and dyer's weed |
Egg,
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40-100 eggs on both surfaces of leaf. |
May-June and August-Early September. 4.5-17 days. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on underside of leaf. |
May-June and August. 7 days. |
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Cabbages:- |
Egg, |
1 egg on underside of leaf. |
July or August; hatches in 3 days. |
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Cabbages:- |
Egg, |
1 egg laid in the tight buds and flowers. |
May-June 7 days. |
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Cherry with |
Egg, |
Eggs laid in batches encircling the branch of the food plant. |
Hatches after 18-22 days in April. |
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Egg, |
Groups of eggs on upper side of leaf. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on leaf. |
10 days in May-June. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on leaf. |
6 days in May-June. |
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Egg, |
1 egg under leaf. |
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(Common CowWheat, Field CowWheat) |
Egg, |
Eggs laid in batches on the under side of the leaves. |
Hatches after 16 days in June. |
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Currants |
Egg, |
Groups of eggs on upper side of leaf. |
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Egg, |
Eggs laid in batches on the under side of the leaves. |
Hatches after 20 days in July. |
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Dog Violet with |
Egg, |
1 egg on oak or pine tree trunk |
15 days in July. |
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Dog Violet with |
Egg, |
1 egg on leaf or stem. |
Hatches after 15 days in May-June. |
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Dog Violet with |
Egg, |
1 egg on leaf or stem. |
Hatches after 10 days in May-June. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on underside of a flower bud on its stalk. |
7 days. |
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Egg, |
Eggs laid in batches encircling the branch of the food plant. |
Hatches after 18-22 days in April. |
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False Brome is a grass (Wood Brome, Wood False-brome and Slender False-brome) |
Egg, |
1 egg under leaf. |
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Egg, |
Eggs laid in batches on the under side of the leaves. |
Hatches after 20 days in July. |
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Egg, |
1 egg laid on underside of leaflets or bracts. |
7 days in June. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on leaf or stem. |
Hatches after 10 days in May-June. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on underside of a flower bud on its stalk. |
7 days. |
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Egg, |
1 egg laid under the leaf or on top of the flower. |
7 days in August. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on leaf. 5 or 6 eggs may be deposited by separate females on one leaf. |
14 days in July-August. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on underside of a flower bud on its stalk. |
7 days. |
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Egg, |
1 egg laid in the tight buds and flowers. |
May-June 7 days. |
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Egg, |
Eggs laid in batches on the under side of the leaves. |
Hatches after 20 days in July. |
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Egg, |
Groups of eggs on upper side of leaf. |
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Egg, |
1 egg under leaf. |
1 then |
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Egg, |
1 egg on underside of a flower bud on its stalk. |
7 days. |
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Egg, |
1 egg at base of plant. |
Late August-April. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on leaf. |
10 days in May-June. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on leaf. |
2 weeks |
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Egg, |
1 egg on leaf. |
6 days in May-June. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on underside of leaf. |
May-June and August. 7 days. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on leaf. 5 or 6 eggs may be deposited by separate females on one leaf. |
14 days in July-August. |
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Narrow-leaved Plantain (Ribwort Plantain) |
Egg, |
Eggs laid in batches on the under side of the leaves. |
Hatches after 16 days in June. |
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Narrow-leaved Plantain (Ribwort Plantain) |
Egg, |
Eggs laid in batches on the under side of the leaves. |
Hatches after 16 days in June. |
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Nasturtium from Gardens |
Egg, |
1 egg on underside of leaf. |
May-June and August. 7 days. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on tree trunk |
15 days in July. |
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Mountain pansy, |
Egg, Chrysalis |
1 egg laid under the leaf or on top of the flower. |
7 days in August. 3 weeks in September |
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Egg, |
1 egg on tree trunk. |
15 days in July. |
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Egg, |
Eggs laid in batches on the under side of the leaves. |
Hatches after 20 days in July. |
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Egg, |
Eggs laid in batches encircling the branch of the food plant. |
Hatches after 18-22 days in April. |
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Egg, |
Groups of eggs on upper side of leaf. |
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Egg, |
1 egg under leaf. |
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Egg, |
1 egg laid under the leaf or on top of the flower. |
7 days in August. |
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Egg, |
Eggs laid in batches encircling the branch of the food plant. |
Hatches after 18-22 days in April. |
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Egg, |
Eggs laid in batches on the under side of the leaves. |
Hatches after 16 days in June. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on underside of a flower bud on its stalk. |
7 days. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on underside of a flower bud on its stalk. |
7 days. |
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Egg, |
Groups of eggs on upper side of leaf. |
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Egg, |
1 egg under leaf. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on leaf. |
2 weeks |
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Trefoils 1, 2, 3 |
Egg, |
1 egg on leaf. |
6 days in May-June. |
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Egg, |
Groups of eggs on upper side of leaf. |
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Egg, |
1 egg laid on underside of leaflets or bracts. |
7 days in June. |
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Violets:- |
Egg, |
1 egg on underside of leaf or on stalk. |
July-August for 17 days. |
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Violets:- |
Egg, |
1 egg on stem or stalk near plant base. |
July to hatch in 8 months in March. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on leaf. |
2 weeks. |
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Egg, |
Eggs laid in batches encircling the branch of the food plant. |
Hatches after 18-22 days in April. |
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Egg, |
1 egg on leaf. 5 or 6 eggs may be deposited by separate females on one leaf. |
14 days in July-August. |
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Willow |
Egg, |
Eggs laid in batches encircling the branch of the food plant. |
Hatches after 18-22 days in April. |
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Egg, |
Eggs laid in batches on the under side of the leaves. |
Hatches after 20 days in July. |
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Plants used by the Butterflies |
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Plant Name |
Butterfly Name |
Egg/ Caterpillar/ Chrysalis/ Butterfly |
Plant Usage |
Plant Usage Months |
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Asters |
Butterfly |
Eats nectar. |
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Runner and Broad Beans in fields and gardens |
Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
April-June or July-September. |
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Aubretia in gardens |
Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
May-June or August till killed by frost and damp in September-November |
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Butterfly |
Eats sap exuding from trunk. |
April-Mid June and Mid July-Early September for second generation. |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar. |
20 days. |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
May-June |
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Holly Blue |
Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
April-Mid June and Mid July-Early September for second generation. |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar. |
July-October. |
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Buddleias |
Butterfly |
Eats nectar. |
July-October. |
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Wood White |
Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
May-June. |
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Cabbage and cabbages in fields |
Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
April-June or July-September. |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
July-October |
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Adonis Blue |
Butterfly |
Eats nectar. |
1 Month during Mid-May to Mid-June or during August-September |
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Pale Clouded Yellow |
Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
May-June or August till killed by frost and damp in September-November |
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Cow-wheat |
Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
June-July |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
May-June |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
April-Mid June and Mid July-Early September for second generation. |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar. |
3 weeks between May and September |
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Germander Speedwell (Veronica chamaedrys - Birdseye Speedwell) |
Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
June-July |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar. |
July-October. |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
30 days in May-June. |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
May-September |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar. |
May-June for 18 days. |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar. |
July-October |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar. |
1 Month. |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar. |
July-October. |
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Painted Lady |
Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
July-October. |
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Marigolds in gardens |
Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
May-June or August till killed by frost and damp in September-November |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar. |
1 Month during Mid-May to Mid-June or during August-September. |
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Michaelmas Daisies |
Butterfly |
Eats nectar. |
July-October |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
April-June or July-September. |
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Narrow-leaved Plantain (Ribwort Plantain) |
Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
June-July |
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Nasturtiums in gardens |
Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
April-June or July-September |
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Butterfly |
Eats sap exuding from trunk. |
April-Mid June and Mid July-Early September for second generation. |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
June. |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
May-June. |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
July-October. |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
July-May |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
7 weeks in July-August. |
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Comma |
Butterfly |
Eats nectar. |
July-October. |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar. |
3 weeks between May and September |
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Trefoils 1, 2, 3 |
Butterfly |
Eats nectar. |
1 Month during Mid-May to Mid-June or during August-September |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar. |
20 days in August. |
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
June.
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Butterfly |
Eats nectar |
June-July |
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Apple/Pear/Cherry/Plum Fruit Tree Blossom in Spring |
Butterfly |
Eats Nectar |
April-May |
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Rotten Fruit |
Butterfly |
Drinks juice |
July-September |
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Tree sap and damaged ripe fruit, which are high in sugar |
Butterfly |
Hibernates inside hollow trees or outhouses until March. Eats sap or fruit juice until April. |
10 months in June-April |
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Wild Flowers |
Large Skipper |
Butterfly |
Eats Nectar |
June-August |
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Links to the other Butterflies:- Black Hairstreak uses Blackthorn, Privet, Guelder Rose, and Wayfaring tree I have detailed the use of plants by these eggs, caterpillars, chrysalis and butterfly in full with either photos of those butterflies, etc or illustrations from Sandars. It shows that they do use plants all year round and I will insert the information of their Life Histories into the remainder of the Butterfly Description Pages but I will put no further information in this table or the Butterfly Name with its use of plants table. Please see what a council did to destroy the native habitat, so that children could ride bicyles anywhere in the park in the row below. Details of what plant is used by each of the different 'egg, caterpillar, chrysalis or butterfly' unit and for how long is given in the table on the left. At least 2 of these butterflies live in America as well as in the UK in 2022:- |
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The following is an excerpt from my Comments about the proposed destruction of the wildlife habitats at Cobtree Manor Park in the summer of 2010 from my Mission Statement page:- "We would be sorry to lose the butterflies on the bluebells, bramble and ivy that would be restricted to only the very small area of proposed Wildlife Meadow by the Woods at the bottom of a hill with water springs on it. The wildlife is now being excluded from all the other areas by the "pruning", so that the nettles, brambles etc which had for instance the butterfly life cycle included; are now being ruthlessly removed to create a garden, not a park, with neat little areas." When you look at the life history graphs of each of the 68 butterflies of Britain, you will see that they use plants throughout all 12 months - the information of what plant is used by the egg, caterpillar, chrysalis or butterfly is also given in the table on the left. With this proposed removal of all plants required for butterflies etc to live in and pro-create; at least once a year by the autumn or spring clearing up, you destroy the wildlife in this park as is done in every managed park in the world. Please leave something for the wildlife to live in without disturbance; rather than destroy everything so children can ride their bicycles anywhere they want when the park is open during the day and they are not at school. |
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The following information (5 December 2021) comes from Wikipedia about Southern Water Services Ltd, which had a revenue of £0.829 billion in 2017-18. Area served by Southern Water is Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Sussex and Kent. "Legal issues[edit] 2009-2011[edit] 2014-2016[edit] 2019[edit] Following the investigation, Southern Water agreed to pay customers approximately £123 million by 2024, partly a payment of price review underperformance penalties the company avoided paying in the period 2010 to 2017 and some of which is a payment to customers for the failures found in Ofwat's investigation. In response to Ofwat's findings, Southern Water announced that following its own internal review, which highlighted multiple failures between 2010 and 2017, it was 'profoundly sorry' and 'working very hard to understand past failings and implement the changes required' to ensure it meets the standards its customers deserve.[19] 2021[edit] How can a government allow a business to carry on when it is damaging the health of its population? and when it does not bother to correct the problem but its directors keep on committing the offences? Is that because the fines do not matter to the company who continue to commit offences and the government turns the other cheek. |
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BROWN WILD FLOWER GALLERY PAGE MENUS |
Botanical Name with Common Name, Wild Flower Family, Flower Colour and Form Index of each of all the Wildflowers of the UK in 1965:- AC, AG,AL,AL,AN, Extra Botanical Names have been added within a row for a different plant. Each Extra Botanical Name Plant will link to an Extras Page where it will be detailed in its own row. |
CREAM WILD FLOWER GALLERY PAGE MENUS |
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"They are also very important to the city of New York (and not just because the leaf is the Parks Department logo). The London Plane, usually considered Platanus x acerifolia but also known by other Latin epithets, is not really native, although it very closely resembles the native American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis. Actually, it is probably a cross between this American species and Platanus orientalis, a Eurasian relative. In any case, it has been widely planted as a city tree for decades, which turns out to be a good idea. In its assessment of the New York City urban forest, the US Forest Service Northern Research Station determined that the London plane is the most important city tree we have. They base this conclusion on several factors. For one thing, London planes have a very high leaf area per tree; that is, the London plane gives us a lot more pretty, shady, air-filtering, evaporatively-cooling leaves per single trunk than most other species in the city. In fact, according to the Forest Service, London planes make up just 4% of the city tree population, but represent 14% of the city's total leaf area. (Compare this with the virulently invasive tree of heaven [Ailanthus altissima], which constitutes 9% of the tree population but only about 4% of the total leaf area.) Also, because they tend to become very tall and have large canopies, London planes are our best trees for carbon storage and sequestration. They are holding on to about 185,000 tons of carbon (14% of the total urban tree carbon pool), and each year they sequester another 5,500 or so tons (about 13% of all the carbon sequestered by city trees each year). That makes them both gorgeous and highly beneficial: all in all, good trees to have around." |
Extra Common Names have been added within a row for a different plant. Each Extra Common Name Plant will link to an Extras Page where it will be detailed in its own row. EXTRAS 57,58, Hemp (cannabis sativa) - 1% of Irelands landmass, growing hemp for fuel, would provide all the energy needs for the country each year, keeping the money with the farmers and keeping the rural economies active and this is also an environmentally friendly fuel. Hemp only has 100,000 commercial uses, so is not worth growing. 1 acre of hemp = 1,000 gallons of methanol and is cheaper to produce than petrol or diesel |
Botanical Name of each Plant within each Botanical Name Extras Page:- |
Snowdrop Galanthus nivalis from Wild Flowers as They Grow- Photographed by H. Essenhigh Corke, text by G. Clark Nuttall. Published by Cassell and Company, Ltd in 7 separate books between 1911 and 1914:- The above is my summary of the chapter on this plant in the above books. They are excellent books for the layman to understand about each of the wildflowers, that he could use in his own garden. I am sorry but I am not going to summarise all of the wildflower plants in those books, but I would at least recommend them to you. This was sent out to customers of Riverford Organic Farmers (also they publish Wicked Leeks Magazine), who sell us a weekly box of vegetables and recipes, fruit and other items produced on farms; dated Monday 18th October 2021:-
Its actually win, win, win, win, win, win. You can refer as many friends as you like - and if all goes well, there will be Devon-grown hazelnuts in your boxes by 2026, and walnuts by 2028." |
Botanical Name Extras Page 91:- Botanical Name Extras Page 92 Normally in the fourth column below, I insert which countries in Europe, the plant is native in; introduced into or except from. Seeing which Native UK Wildflowers are also native in your country within Europe, Soviet Union, USA, Canada or China (from AC to CE) you can then use them with the cultivated plants for your country in your own home garden - so help your local wildlife including Butterflies - and home with snippets from Flower Arrangements from Wild Flowers by Violet Stevenson. Published by J M Dent & Sons in 1972. ISBN 0 460 07844 5. View my chapter precis before executing the flower arranging of the plants. The Saxifraga Foundation is a network of European nature photographers, whose aim is to stimulate and facilitate the conservation of European biodiversity. They do so by providing high-quality nature pictures free of charge. The website free natureimages.eu is an initiative of the Saxifraga Foundation. The Saxifrage foundation is assisted by the Crossbill Guides Foundation, Dutch Butterfly Conservation (De Vlinderstichting) and Foto Fitis. Currently, Saxifraga is working on two projects. The first one is the construction of a gallery of pictures of European plants, animals and landscapes. To download these pictures, go to the Saxifraga Gallery. With the search engine you can search for images using the scientific name or the common name of plants and animals in Dutch and English. The second project is the creation of a collection of images of the Dutch landscape (NL in Beeld). This has been done by taking pictures in a grid in a systematic way. We have used the so called Amersfoort-coordinates, which are found on official Dutch topographic maps. The Amersfoort grid is a collection of square kilometers. To find more details visit the website of NL in Beeld. The pictures can be viewed at the Saxifraga Gallery. United States Department of Agriculture Plant Hardiness Zone Map - This map of USA is based on a range of average annual minimum winter temperatures, divided into 13 of 10-degree F zones, that this plant will thrive in USA, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. There are other Hardiness Zone Maps for the rest of the world including the one for Great Britain and Ireland of zones 7a to 10a. If the plant you see here has the same zone in your area of that country, then you can grow it at your home. |
Cultural Needs of Plants "Understanding Fern Needs But unfortunately the human population in this world do not understand the above needs for plants as shown by:- Article on Welcome Page about trees falling down within pavements in Funchal, Madeira They set light to the rubbish collected inside the tree trunk, either by a discarded match used to light a cigarette or the stub of that cigarette. This then burns the rubbish inserted by the public and it also burns the rotting and non-rotting heartwood, whilst still allowing the public to wander past the burning or burnt tree. Stubs of cigarettes and discarded lit matches are also dropped on exposed tree roots:- Pavements of Funchal, Madeira The easiest, cheapest and quickest solution for existing pavement areas using pavers or paving slabs is the SuDSFLOW System using paving spacers to create permeable paving. See further details within the row for the London Planetree at the bottom of Botanical Name PH-PL 60 page. |
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It is worth remembering that especially with roses that the colour of the petals of the flower may change - The following photos are of Rosa 'Lincolnshire Poacher' which I took on the same day in R.V. Roger's Nursery Field:- |
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Closed Bud |
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Opening Bud |
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Juvenile Flower |
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Older Juvenile Flower |
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Middle-aged Flower - Flower Colour in Season in its |
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Mature Flower |
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Juvenile Flower and Dying Flower |
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Form of Rose Bush |
There are 720 roses in the Rose Galleries; many of which have the above series of pictures in their respective Rose Description Page. So one might avoid the disappointment that the 2 elephants had when their trunks were entwined instead of them each carrying their trunk using their own trunk, and your disappointment of buying a rose to discover that the colour you bought it for is only the case when it has its juvenile flowers; if you look at all the photos of the roses in the respective Rose Description Page!!!! |
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My current ambition at my retired age of 73 in 2022 (having started this website in 2005) is to complete the following:- Wildflower Flower Shape and Landscape Uses Gallery has an empty framework that I created on 20 February 2022. When all the remainder of the UK wildflowers have been checked:-
Then, the wildflower entries in the Wildflower Flower Shape and Landscape Uses Gallery will be filled in after each Wildflower has its cultivation details added to the Botanical Names and Common Names Galleries. Starting the above from 20 February 2022, I think it might take me a few years, but it does mean that as I progress then you will be able to associate more wildflowers with more of all the plant types of the cultivated plants who have similar growing requirements. Then, more of the natural world with its wildlife could also inhabit your garden. |
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Aims of the Wild Flower Society
Plants included in Schedule 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981 |
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Identifying Edible and Poisonous Wild Plants |
