colours

Scarlet macaw Ara macao pen and ink illustration with colour top wash.  Illustration from “The Hidden Universe” by Alex Antonelli.

Scarlet Elf cap Sarcoscypha coccinea pen and ink illustration against moss

Pignut Conopodium majus with details of flower, root, and shoot

Dandelion Taxacum officinale with details of seed and root

Cowslip Primula veris with dissections of thrum and pin flowers and flowering raceme and leaf painted in full

Borage borago officianalis sketchbook study with a focus on one leaf and the blue flower

Pen and ink illustration of a sprig of bilberry with lots of berries on

Yew Taxus baccata sprig and detail of lone berry

Yorkshire fog Holcus lanatus plant with lemma, ligule, and spikelet detail

Wood forget-me-not Myosotis sylvtica with pink buds and blue flowers, and showing the hairy leaves

Yellow rattle Rhinanthus minor in flower

Wood horsetail Equisetum sylvestris plant, stem detail, and flowering spike

Yellow saxifrage Saxifraga azoides with red stem and detail of single petal

Wood Melick Melica uniflora plant with ligule, lemma, and spikelet details

Yellow water-lily Nuphar lutea pencil drawing of flowers, brandy bottle seed head, and leaves floating on the water surface

Wood millet Milium effusum with ligule, lemma and spikelet detail

Wood sedge Carex sylvatica with fruit, female glume, and ligule details

Wood Sorrel Oxalis acetosella with stolon, flowers, and leaves

Wood speedwell Veronica montana showing red stem

Wood spurge Euphorbia amaldygloides with individual flower detail

Woolly willow Salix lanata sprig with catkins and small image of the tree shape

Wych elm Ulmus glabra with fruit, flower, and leaves on twig

Yam with plant attached

Yellow archangel Lamiastrum galeobdolon plant