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Cuckooflower or Lady’s-smock Cardamine pratensis showing basal rosette, flowers, and young silique seed pods.

Horsetails: Calamophytes Field horsetail Equisetum arvense, Marsh horsetail Equisetum palustre, & Water or River horsetail Equisetum fluviatile

Bluebell sketch Hyacinthoides non-scripta showing blue flowers and strap-like leaves

Autumn crocus or meadow saffron sketch Colchicum autumnale.  From the Brecknockshire Flora; example of a monocot

Adder’s-tongue fern Ophioglossum vulgatum showing spore bearing “tongue”

Common glasswort Salicornia europaea plant for Field Studies Council

Water primrose Ludwigia grandiflora showing submerged and emergent leaves.  For FSC.

Carline Thistle Carlina vulgaris showing straw coloured flowers

Bird’s-foot showing sprawling habit and small multi-coloured flowers

Flower showing spreading habit, pale lilac flowers and rounded leaves

Common stork’s bill Erodium Cicutarium showing long beaked seeds and numerous small flowers in each flowering head.

Monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus & Queen butterfly Danaus gilippus life cycle on Mexican milkweed Asclepias curassavica.  Illustration includes pupa and caterpillar for both species.

Rocky shore community Annotated rough.  From “The Hidden Universe” by Alexandre Antonelli

Alexanders Smyrnium olusatrum with Puccinia smyrnii rust on some leaves, and detail of one flower and one seed.

Wood vetch showing branching tendrils, growth habit, and the darker-coloured banner petals.

Alaskan lupin Lupinus nootkanensis plant showing leaves and blue flowering spikes.

Nootka lupin Lupinus nootkanensis flowering spike in sketch style, watercolour & graphite

Nootka lupin Lupinus nootkanensis sketchbook studies showing details of leaflets, seed pods, seeds, root, habit sketch, and flower cross sections.

Nootka lupin sketch with notes showing details of leaflets, seed pods, seeds, root, habit sketch, and flower cross sections.

Habit sketch of Heath Star-moss Campylopus introflexus growing on limestone boulder.

Heath Star-moss Campylopus introflexus illustrations showing wet moss with white apical hairs.

Heath Star-moss study showing the moss in wet and dry states, and botanical details

Heath Star-moss study with notes showing the moss in dry and wet form and with botanical details

Cow Parsley sketchbook study sheet.  Detail of seed head, flowers, and leaves and roots are shown.