environment

Beech bark study Fagus sylvatica showing a knot

Beech Fagus sylvatica tree outline showing tree shape without leaves

Beech Fagus sylvatica twig in bud and leaf and beechnuts

Begonia Begonia pearcei growing in terracotta plant pot

Bell heather Erica cinerea with close up of individual flower

Bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus in flower and with black berries

Bird’s foot trefoil Lotus corniculatus with yellow flowers face on and in profile

Birds nest orchid Neottia nidus-avis flowering spike

Biting stonecrop Sedum acre sprig with two flowering spikes and a few vegetative ones

Bitter vetch Lathyrus linifolius showing purple flowers and pods both ripe and brown and earlier on, still green. Tendrils and winged stem shown clearly along with paied leaves

Bitter wood vetch Vicia orobus showing the pale mauve flowers and pale green pods and paired leaves

Bittersweet Solanum dulcamara with distinctive purple and yellow flowers and one bright red berry

Black eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta with three blooms, one in flower, one in bud, and one going over

Black horehound Ballota nigra with detail on individual purple flower

Black Nightshade Solanum nigrum sprig with setails of seed, flower, stamen, and berry included

Black grass Alopecurus myosuroides

Black poplar Populus nigra leaf flower and catkins

Blackberry Rubus fruticosa showing flowers, ripe and unripe fruit, and a leaflet

Blackthorn Prunus spinosa with a sprig showing spine, leaf and fruit and the other sprig showing blossom

Abscission diagram showing ho w the abscission layer lets the leaf fall off without exposing the plant to pathogens

Bugle Ajuga reptans plant with stolon

Alder buckthorn Rhamnus frangula sprig with close up of berry and flower, berries red and purple

Pollarded Alder Alnusglutinosa tree in leaf

Alpine ladies mantle alchemilla alpina with pale underside of leaves ahown and fibrous root area