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Arrowroot Maranta arundinacea completed for Montserrat National Trust

Thimbleberry Rubus parviflorus showing berries and flowers

Red huckleberry botanical illustration showing berries and flowers

Red tailed bumblebee Bombus lapidarius with Cornflower Centaurea cyanus.  Second version of this seed packet design

Field fleawort Tephroseris intergrifolia showing basal rosette and furry characteristics

Early gentian Gentianella amarella subsp anglica showing pair leaves and basal rosette

Bastard-toadflax Thesium humifusum with detail of individual flower

Blunt-fruited water-starwort Callitriche obtusangula showing emergent rosette and submerged leaves.  Detail of intermediate leaves leaf tip and fruit.

Juniper Juniperus communis with detail of male and female flowers

Shepherd’s needle or Venus’s comb Scandix pecten-veneris showing distinctive elongated seed pods and details of flower

Stream water-crowfoot Ranunculus penicillatus subsp. pseudofluitans

Prickly poppy Papaver argemone with detail of prickly seed head, stamen, and seed

Sharp rush Juncus acutus with leaf tip and nutlet detail

Marram grass Ammophila arenaria with detail of flowering head, ligule and in-rolled leaf

Sand pansy Viola tricolor ssp curtisi showing insubstantial foliage and yellow and white flowers

Oxeye daisy Leucanthemum vulgare & buff-tailed bumblebee Bombus terrestris

Cornflowers Centaurea cyanus in a meadow with Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius

Garden scene designed for use on seed packet for wild flowers.

Duck potato Sagittaria latifolia botanical illustration by Lizzie Harper showing underwater “potato” growths

Fool’s water-cress Apium nodiflorum with seed and flower detail

Greater Bird’s-foot trefoil Lotus pendunculatus or Lotus uliginosus with calyx detail

Gypsywort Lycopus europaeus with detail of flower calyx and seed

Water fern Azolla filiculoides shown floating with water repelling properties

Water figwort Scrophularia auriculata with detail of flower stem and seed