british wild flowers

Bluebell sketch Hyacinthoides non-scripta showing blue flowers and strap-like leaves

Autumn crocus or meadow saffron sketch Colchicum autumnale.  From the Brecknockshire Flora; example of a monocot

Adder’s-tongue fern Ophioglossum vulgatum showing spore bearing “tongue”

Common glasswort Salicornia europaea plant for Field Studies Council

Water primrose Ludwigia grandiflora showing submerged and emergent leaves.  For FSC.

Carline Thistle Carlina vulgaris showing straw coloured flowers

Bird’s-foot showing sprawling habit and small multi-coloured flowers

Flower showing spreading habit, pale lilac flowers and rounded leaves

Common stork’s bill Erodium Cicutarium showing long beaked seeds and numerous small flowers in each flowering head.