environment

Wood or Upright Bitter-vetch sketch Vicia orobus with pinnate paired leaves and pale mauve flowers.

White waterlily Nymphaea alba shown floating on water with lily pads

White & Yellow waterlily Nymphaea alba & Nuphar luteum comparison, shown in water.

Welsh poppy sketch Meconopsis cambrica showing bud and yellow flower in bloom

Water horsetail Equisetum fluviatile with strobili shown emerging from fresh water.

Sweet vernal grass sketch Anthoxanthum odoratum showing plant with flowering spike

Stag’s-horn clubmoss Lycopodium clavatum showing horizontal growth pattern and spore bearing cones

Mountain or soft leaved sedge sketch Carex montana showing the plant in bloom

Moonwort Botrychium lunaria with sporangia, spore producing stems.

Monocot seedling showing seed, emergent leaves, and root

Monocot plant variety with seedling.  Plants shown are: Soft-leaved or Mountain sedge Carex montan, Meadow saffron Colchium autumnale, Fragrant orchid Gymnadenia conopsed, Bluebell Hyacinthoides non-scripta, Wood rush Luzula sylvatica, and Sweet vernal grass Anthoxanthum odoratum

Monocot plant variety featuring numerous monocots such as rush, grass, bluebell, sedge, and crocus.

Meadow saxifrage sketch Saxifraga granulata with white flowers and basal rosette of rounded leaves.

Marsh horsetail Equisetum palustre with strobili growing in shallow water or marshland.

Ivy-leaved Bellflower sketch Wahlenbergia hederacea showing sprawling habit

Hawkweed sketch Hieracium showing basal rosette and dandelion-like flowers

Globe flower sketch Trollius europaeus showing characteristic closed flower shape.

Fragrant orchid sketch Gymnadenia conopsea showing flowers and leaves

Field horsetail Equisetum arvense, with background.

Fern spore of an Ophioglossum species, showing the distinctive tri-partite shape and textured spore surface.

Eudicot seedling showing paired cotyledon leaves, seed, and root.

Eudicot plant variety with eudicot seedling. Plants illustrated are: Ivy-leaved bellflower Wahlenbergia hederacea, Hawkweed Hieracium, Meadow saxifrage Saxifraga granulata, Globe flower Trollius europaeus, Wood Bitter-vetch Vicia orobus, and Welsh Poppy Meconopsis cambrica.

Eudicot and monocot seedling comparison showing cotyledon leaves on the eudicot and furled parallel-veined leaves of the monocot.

Delicate Stonewort Chara virgata.  Botanical illustration from the Brecknockshire flora.