basal rosette

Greater plantain Plantago major showing basal rosette with individual detail of one flower

Greater plantain Plantago major pen and ink illustration line drawing with flower detail

Dandelion Taxacum officinale with details of seed and root

Violet Viola riviniana plant

Water avens Geum rivale plant with root

Sundew Drosera rotundifolia with basal rosette of leaves and emerging flowering spikes

Tormentil Potentilla erecta plant showing both shapes of leaves

Small scabious Scabiosa columbaria with flower detail and showing vegetative growth along a stolon

Salad burnett Sanguisorba minor with detail of individual male and female flowers

Primrose Primula vulgaris

Oxlip Primula elatior

Parsley Petroselinum crispum sprig and sprig with bud

Mountain everlasting flower Antennaria dioica with flowers growing from a basal rosette and a second basal rosette growing from the main plant by adventitious growth

Marsh hawksbeard Crepis paludosa with black glands on the clayx clear and dentate leaves amplexicaul to the stem

Marsh Thistle Cirsium palustre with basal rosette of leaves and erect stem with tight cluster of thistle flowers

Heath spotted orchid Dactylorhiza maculata with pale flowers and showing long spotted leaves

Hawkbit Leontodon hispidus

Hairy Bittercress Cardamine hirsuta with basal rosette of leaves, flowers, seed pods, and one dehising to show how the seeds are spread

Gentian gentiana acaulis individual flower and basal rosette of leaves

Globe flower Trollius europaeus

Field scabious Knautia arvensis with both leaf shapes shown

Field scabious Knautia arvensis with several flowers

Foxglove Digitalis purpurea individual flower with white tailed bumble bee inside

Foxglove Digitalis purpurea plant