elegant

Wood melick Melica uniflora with detail of ligule and individual floret

Crested Dog’s-tail grass Cynosurus cristatus with written name

Crested Dog’s-tail grass Cynosurus cristatus 2 botanical illustration

Cock’s-foot grass Dactylis glomerata with written name

Cock’s-foot grass Dactylis glomerata 2 showing grass with shoots in full flower.

Yorkshire Fog Holcus lanatus grass with written name in hand painted watercolour text

Yorkshire Fog Holcus lanatus grass with annotations and name.  Parts include culm, inforescence or panicle, leaf blade, nodes, and internode.

Yorkshire Fog grass Holcus lanatus 2 with striped pink culms and soft green grass blades

Named Grasses with annotation of grass anatomy: False Oat, Crested Dogs-tail, Cocks-foot, and Yorkshire Fog

Grasses: False Oat Arrhenatherum elatius, Crested Dogs-tail Cynosurus cristatus, Cocks-foot Dactylis glomerata, and Yorkshire Fog Holcus lanatus.

False Oat grass Arrhenatherum elatius with written name botanical illustration

False Oat grass Arrhenatherum elatius botanical illustration  

Reef Manta ray Manta alfredi showing two animals swimming with mouths open, filter-feeding. Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books)

Thomsons Gazelle Eudorcas thomsonii illustration from A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough

Silver birch Betula pendula sketchbook page with a focus on the leaves

Pied wagtail Montacilla alba with grass and stone

Pied wagtail Montacilla alba cut to white showing monochrome colours

Lombardy poplar Populus nigra eaves seeds and fluffy seeds

Lombardy Poplar Populus nigra tree showing elongated growth pattern

Silver Birch drawing showing elegant form and habit

Silver birch sprig with leaves and male and female catkins

Aspen tree showing habit and growth form

Wood sorrel Oxalis acetosela pen and ink illustration

Wood Sorrel Oxalis acetosella with stolon, flowers, and leaves