fens

Branched Bur-reed Sparganium erectum showing rhizomes, and plant with flowers and fruit.  Illustration also shows details of an individual fruit, and of a female and male flower.  

Arrowhead Sagittaria sagitarria showing underwater ribbon-like leaves and floating oval leaves.  Emergent leaves are arrow-shaped.  Illustration also shows flowers and fruit.

Broad-leaved Pondweed Potamogeton natans with detail of fruiting spike, one seed, and one flower.

Frog’s-bit Hydrocharis morsus-ranae showing plant with female flowers on the left, and one with male flowers on the right.  Illustration shows rhizomes as well as floating orbicular leaves and flowers.

Water horsetail showing two sterile stems and two fertile stems, one with leaves and one without.  Also showing cross section of the stem, and the rhizome.

Parrots Feather Myriophyllum aquaticum showing rosettes of leaves below water.  Also showing detail of the tiny flowers, and a vegetative and flowering spike.

Flowering rush Butomus umbellatus with details of individual flower, leaf cross section, stamen before and after dehiscence, and seedhead

Water plantain Alisma plantago-aquatica with details of fruit individual seed and one flower

Swallowtail butterfly Papilio machaon cut to whtie

Scarlet tiger moth Callimorpha dominula on birds foot trefoil Lotus corniculata plant

Large Copper Lycaena dispar butterfly cut to white

Yellow loosestrife Lysimachia vulgaris pencil drawing

Yellow Flag Iris pseudoacorus in flower

Yellow Flag Iris pseudoacorus in flower, pencil drawing

Star sedge Carex echinata plant with two stigmas, ligule, fruit, female glume and leaf tip

Tubular water dropwort Oenanthe fistulosa in amongst grasses with flowering head and seed head, and showing the stem swelling as well as leaves

Reed Phragmites australis

Ragged robin Lychnis flos cuculi with flowers, buds and leaves

Marsh stitchwort Stellaria palustris

Marsh marigold Caltha palustris flowers with bud and round leaves

Marsh marigold Caltha palustris with roots and flowers, buds and fruit shown

Marsh helleborine Epipactis palustris growing in grass

Intermediate Hook moss Scorpidium cossonii with individual fascicle and one leaf

Hemp Agrimony Eupatorium cannabinum pencil drawing